Why the study?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart failure commonly co-occur with increased mortality, and the newly developed WATCH-DM risk score can assist in predicting five-year heart failure risk.
A significant proportion (43%) of outpatients with type 2 diabetes in this cohort are at high or very high predicted risk for incident heart failure based on the WATCH-DM score.
May support HF risk assessment in T2DM outpatients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Background: The concomitant occurrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart failure is common with increased mortality. WATCH-DM risk score is newly developed that assists heart failure prediction in the future five years. Objective: To predict the risk of heart failure among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in outpatient setting, using the novel WATC DM risk score. Methodology: Descriptive cross sectional study was applied involving a convenient sample of diabetic patients in single diabetic center in Baghdad over period of 1 year, where each one interviewed and asked about sociodemographic data, previous myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass graft then Blood pressure measured, ( electrocardiography)ECG performed and the patient send for investigations need for WACH-DM risk scoring including fasting blood sugar, Serum Creatinine and HDL-C, risk score calculated for each patient according to the WACH–DM score. Results: The sample included 112 diabetic patients of who 81 (75%) of them were females, mean WATCH-DM score was 10.39±3.6 (mean± SD), very low score 26%, high score 24% and very high score 19%. Conclusion: Among study sample 43% of patients have high and very high risk score of incident heart failure using WATCH-DM risk score
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