Reduced longitudinal cardiac strain in asthma patients

• Published in: The Journal of asthma Vol. 56; no. 4; p. 350
• Main Authors: Tuleta, I, Eckstein, N, Aurich, F, Nickenig, G, Schaefer, C, Skowasch, D, Schueler, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 03.04.2019
• Subjects: Administration, Inhalation; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Anti-Asthmatic Agents; Asthma - diagnosis; Asthma - drug therapy; Asthma - epidemiology; Biomarkers - blood; Case-Control Studies; Comorbidity; Drug Therapy, Combination; Echocardiography - methods; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Incidence; Linear Models; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Prognosis; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - epidemiology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - diagnostic imaging; Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - epidemiology; speckle-tracking analysis; Allergic asthma; longitudinal ventricular strain; heart dysfunction; echocardiography

There is limited knowledge about the potential relationship between asthma and heart function. Aim of our present study was to examine if asthma may be associated with manifest or subclinical heart dysfunction. Seventy-two allergic mild-to-moderate and severe asthma patients and 20 matched controls...