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Non-Invasive radial pressure wave analysis may digitally predict women's risks of type 2 diabetes (T2DM): A case and
Chih-Yu Chen1,2,3, Kuo-Meng Liao4, Sheng-Hung Wang5
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keelung Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung, Taiwan.
Background:
Women not only have worse diabetes complications, but also have menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause which can make managing diabetes more difficult. The aim of this study was to investigate if radial pressure wave analysis may non-invasively screen for women's risk of type 2 diabetes.
Methods:
Spectrum analysis of the radial pressure wave was performed to evaluate the first five harmonic components, C1 to C5. The study consisted of a total of 808 non-pregnant female subjects aged 20-95 over the period of 4 years, and 404 of them were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes as the case group.
Result:
The first five harmonic components are significantly different in a comparison of the case group and the control group. In the logistic regression analysis, T2DM was found to be associated with C1 (OR = 1.055, CI = 1.037-1.074, p < 0.001), C2 (OR = 1.051, CI = 1.019-1.085, p = 0.002), and C3 (OR = 0.972, CI = 0.950-0.994, p = 0.013). In the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis, the Area Under Curve of using C3 only (70%, p <0.05), weighted C1, C2 and C3, (75%, p < 0.05), and weighted C1, C2 and C3 and Body mass Index (84%, p <0.05) were tested for the accuracy on how well these tests separate the women into the groups with and without the T2DM.
Conclusion:
We thus concluded that pulse spectrum was a non-invasive predictor for women's risk of T2DM.
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