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Impact of diabetes and diastolic dysfunction on exercise capacity in normotensive patients without coronary artery
Ahmet Gürdal1, Erdem Kasikcioglu2, Sertac Yakal2
1Department of Cardiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey gurdal27@hotmail.com.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to determine the impact of diabetes and diastolic dysfunction on exercise capacity in asymptomatic, normotensive patients with type 2 diabetes without coronary artery disease.
Methods:
A total of 43 type 2 diabetes patients (age: 50 ± 5 years) and 20 healthy controls (age: 48 ± 4 years) were enrolled. Diastolic function was investigated by conventional pulsed-wave (PW) Doppler and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). Exercise capacity was evaluated with cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET).
Results:
In patients with type 2 diabetes, increase in resting heart rate (HR-rest) (p = 0.013), decrease in maximum heart rate during exercise (HR-max) (p < 0.001) and exercise time (p < 0.001) compared with controls were significant. Patients had significantly increased minute ventilation volume (VE)/maximum carbon dioxide discharge (VCO2) ratio (p < 0.001), decreased maximum oxygen consumption (VO2-max) (p < 0.001), oxygen consumption at anaerobic threshold (VO2-an) (p < 0.001) and maximum carbon dioxide discharge (VCO2) (p < 0.001) compared to controls indicating significantly reduced exercise capacity. HbA1c was inversely correlated with VO2-max (r = -0.456, p < 0.01) independent of the absence or presence of mild diastolic dysfunction.
Conclusion:
Exercise capacity was found to be significantly decreased in normotensive patients with type 2 diabetes without coronary artery disease, and this decrease was independent of diastolic dysfunction.
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