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Does diabetes mellitus alter radial and longitudinal contractility in patients with normal ejection fraction and no ischemia compared to age-matched controls?
Does diabetes mellitus alter radial and longitudinal contractility in patients with normal ejection fraction and no ischemia compared to age-matched controls?
In subclinical diabetic heart disease, increased radial contractility appears to compensate for reduced longitudinal contractility in the absence of ischemia or LV hypertrophy.
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May indicate radial compensation for longitudinal impairment in subclinical diabetic cardiomyopathy; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Fang et al. (2004) studied this question.
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