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Echocardiography Findings in a Cohort of Older Diabetic Patients with Diastolic Dysfunction: Do They Fall Under the Diabetic Cardiomyopathy Diagnosis? by Adrian Valverde; Richard G. Vaca; Silvia Caceres Vinueza; Yan Carlos Duarte Vera is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Objectives: Our main goal is to describe the echocardiography findings in older type 2 diabetic patients with diastolic dysfunction (DD) and contrast them with the diabetic cardiomyopathy cr iter ia (1). Methods: We assessed 201 echocardiography results in a private cardiology center in Guayaquil, Ecuador. We describe the mean ±SD of continuous variables, and frequencies of categorical variables with cut-off points taken from the Spanish Society of Cardiac Imaging guidelines. We conducted Chi-square and linear regression analysis for further associations. Results: The mean age was 68.07 ±12.08, 75.6% were females, 92.5% had hypertension (HTN) and 79.1% had DD with a mean ejection fraction of 64.51 ±9.44. The mean interventricular septum width (IVSW) was 11.05 ±2.66mm. HTN showed no association with DD (p = 0.929), however, an increased IVSW (p = 0.47) and age > 65yo (p < 0.001) did. IVSW also showed a strong positive correlation with posterior wall width (PWW) (B = 0.872, p < 0.001), although PWW mean was normal (10.48 ±2.22mm). Conclusion: These diabetic patients had DD which was not related with HTN, but associated with age and increased IVSW. Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is def

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Author

Adrian Valverde; Richard G. Vaca; Silvia Caceres Vinueza; Yan Carlos Duarte Vera

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)