Left ventricular chamber dilation and filling pressure may help to categorise patients with type 2 diabetes

• Published in: BMJ open diabetes research & care Vol. 6; no. 1; p. e000529
• Main Authors: Zoppini, Giacomo, Bergamini, Corinna, Bonapace, Stefano, Trombetta, Maddalena, Mantovani, Alessandro, Toffalini, Anna, Lanzoni, Laura, Bertolini, Lorenzo, Zenari, Luciano, Bonora, Enzo, Targher, Giovanni, Rossi, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.06.2018; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: Antihypertensives; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk; Classification; Collaboration; Diabetes; Diabetic retinopathy; Epidemiology; Geometry; Heart failure; Hypertension; Laboratories; Italy; preserved ejection fraction; chamber volume; transthoracic echocardiography; left ventricular geometry; type 2 diabetes
• ISSN: 2052-4897; 2052-4897
• DOI: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2018-000529

BackgroundType 2 diabetes may alter cardiac structure and function. Many patients with type 2 diabetes have diastolic dysfunction with preserved ejection fraction (EF). Recently, this latter measure was criticised. Thus, this research looked at the impact of left ventricular end-diastolic volume and...