The effect of type 2 diabetes on diastolic function

• Published in: Medicine and science in sports and exercise Vol. 38; no. 8; p. 1384
• Main Authors: Baldi, James C, Aoina, James L, Whalley, Gillian A, Carrick-Ranson, Graeme, Walsh, Helen A, O'Shaughnessy, Helen, Bagg, Warwick, Doughty, Robert N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2006
• Subjects: Adult; Chi-Square Distribution; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - physiopathology; Diastole - physiology; Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed; Exercise Test; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Overweight; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - physiopathology
• ISSN: 0195-9131
• DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000228954.90591.95

This study aimed to determine whether sedentary overweight subjects with type 2 diabetes have impaired diastolic function compared with equally sedentary and overweight nondiabetic subjects. Mitral valve pulsed Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) were used to assess left ventricular structure and diastolic function in 40- to 60-yr-old sedentary overweight subjects with type 2 diabetes (N = 13) and age- and body mass-matched sedentary nondiabetic subjects (N = 15). Pseudonormal filling was identified using preload reduction and TDI. Traditional Doppler mitral inflow parameters were not different between groups; however, early diastolic relaxation, as measured by peak early mitral annular velocity (E') and the ratio of E' and peak late mitral annular velocity (E'/A'), was reduced in type 2 diabetic subjects (P < 0.05). The ratio of peak early mitral inflow (E) to E' (E/E'), an estimate of left ventricular filling pressure, was also higher in the type 2 diabetes group (P < 0.05). The proportions of diastolic impairment (69 vs 40%) and pseudonormal filling (39 vs 20%) were not different between groups (P = 0.18). These findings suggest that type 2 diabetes has an effect on diastolic function that is independent of age and body composition.