TY - JOUR
T1 - Abnormal echocardiography in patients with type 2 diabetes and relation to symptoms and clinical characteristics
AU - Jørgensen, Peter Godsk
AU - Jensen, Magnus Thorsten
AU - Mogelvang, Rasmus
AU - von Scholten, Bernt Johan
AU - Bech, Jan
AU - Hansen, Thomas Fritz
AU - Galatius, Søren
AU - Biering-Sørensen, Tor
AU - Andersen, Henrik Ullits
AU - Lauritsen, Tina Vilsbøll
AU - Rossing, Peter
AU - Jensen, Jan Skov
N1 - © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Objectives: We aimed to determine the prevalence of echocardiographic abnormalities and their relation to clinical characteristics and cardiac symptoms in a large, contemporary cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes. Results: A total of 1030 patients with type 2 diabetes participated. Echocardiographic abnormalities were present in 513 (49.8%) patients, mainly driven by a high prevalence of diastolic dysfunction 178 (19.4%), left ventricular hypertrophy 213 (21.0%) and left atrial enlargement, 200 (19.6%). The prevalence increased markedly with age from 31.1% in the youngest group (<55 years) to 73.9% in the oldest group (>75 years) (p < 0.001) and was equally distributed among the sexes (p = 0.76). In univariate analyses, electrocardiographic abnormalities, age, body mass index, known coronary heart disease, hypertension, albuminuria, diabetes duration and creatinine were associated with abnormal echocardiography along with dyspnoea and characteristic chest pain (p < 0.05 for all). Neither of the cardiac symptoms nor clinical characteristics had sufficient sensitivity and specificity to accurately identify patients with abnormal echocardiography. Conclusion: Echocardiographic abnormalities are very common in outpatients with type 2 diabetes, but neither cardiac symptoms nor clinical characteristics are effective to identify patients with echocardiographic abnormalities.
AB - Objectives: We aimed to determine the prevalence of echocardiographic abnormalities and their relation to clinical characteristics and cardiac symptoms in a large, contemporary cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes. Results: A total of 1030 patients with type 2 diabetes participated. Echocardiographic abnormalities were present in 513 (49.8%) patients, mainly driven by a high prevalence of diastolic dysfunction 178 (19.4%), left ventricular hypertrophy 213 (21.0%) and left atrial enlargement, 200 (19.6%). The prevalence increased markedly with age from 31.1% in the youngest group (<55 years) to 73.9% in the oldest group (>75 years) (p < 0.001) and was equally distributed among the sexes (p = 0.76). In univariate analyses, electrocardiographic abnormalities, age, body mass index, known coronary heart disease, hypertension, albuminuria, diabetes duration and creatinine were associated with abnormal echocardiography along with dyspnoea and characteristic chest pain (p < 0.05 for all). Neither of the cardiac symptoms nor clinical characteristics had sufficient sensitivity and specificity to accurately identify patients with abnormal echocardiography. Conclusion: Echocardiographic abnormalities are very common in outpatients with type 2 diabetes, but neither cardiac symptoms nor clinical characteristics are effective to identify patients with echocardiographic abnormalities.
KW - Journal Article
U2 - 10.1177/1479164116645583
DO - 10.1177/1479164116645583
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27208801
SN - 1479-1641
VL - 13
SP - 321
EP - 330
JO - Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
JF - Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
IS - 5
ER -