Why the study?
Can tissue Doppler echocardiography identify early diastolic myocardial dysfunction in prediabetic patients compared to healthy controls?
Population
80 subjects, including 60 prediabetic patients with no evidence of heart disease by conventional…
Comparison
Tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE) vs Healthy controls
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Tissue Doppler may detect subclinical diastolic dysfunction in prediabetes; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Can tissue Doppler echocardiography identify early diastolic myocardial dysfunction in prediabetic patients compared to healthy controls?
Tissue Doppler echocardiography can identify early diastolic myocardial dysfunction in prediabetic patients with impaired glucose tolerance before changes are visible on conventional echocardiography.
Kanat et al. (2013) studied this question.
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