[Cardiologic findings in newly manifested type II diabetics of the diabetes intervention study]

In 1,126 newly manifested primarily purely dietetic manageable type II-diabetics (628 men, 498 women) of the diabetes intervention study (DIS) at the age from 30 to 55 years the prevalence of the ischaemic heart disease was established with the help of the ECG in rest (Minnesota code) and in 70% of the test persons by an additional electrocardiography after work. Including the two parameters in 9.2% of the diabetic men and 26.1% of the women electrocardiographic findings of an ischaemic heart disease could be proved. The proportion of pathological findings of the ECG increased with age. While the proportion of a probable ischaemic heart disease (code 1.1-1.2) in the ECG in rest and with 1.4% the same size in the two sexes, in women, the percentage of a possible ischaemic heart disease (code 1.3, 4.1-4.3/5-5.3/8.3) prevailed with statistical significance after the 45th year of age. The at present numerically largest study on newly detected diabetics of type II gives evidences to the previous cardial lesion when the diabetes is manifest at medium age on the basis of the homogeneity of the number of patients.