Population
595 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, including 70 with ischemic heart disease (IHD)
Comparison
Measurement of regional arterial stiffness using… vs Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Central stiffness linked to IHD in T2D; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
In patients with type 2 diabetes, increased central arterial stiffness (heart-femoral PWV) is independently associated with the presence of ischemic heart disease.
Hatsuda et al. (2006) studied this question.
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