Continuous electrocardiographic recording during exercise in young male diabetics. A computer study.
Forty selected young patients with diabetes of medium to long duration and 26 control subjects without clinical evidence of ischaemic heart disease were studied using a new and sensitive technique of electrocardiographic recording during exercise with continuous computation of the time course of the ST-T segment changes to detect possible early ST depression indicative of ischaemia. Although no such evidence was found, significant differences in the diabetics were observed in the heart rate and ST-T segment, the latter changes having not been previously reported but which may be attributed to ischaemia or alternatively to autonomic neuropathy in the "presymptomatic" phase.
D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003203:Computers, Hybrid; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D005082:Physical Exertion