title: Left ventricular dysfunction and blood glycohemoglobin levels in young diabetics.
abstract: Left ventricular function including regional wall motion (RWM) was evaluated by 99mTc first-pass and equilibrium gated blood pool ventriculography and glycohemoglobin (HbA1c) blood levels determined by a quantitative column technique in 25 young patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus without clinical evidence of heart disease, and in healthy controls matched for age and sex. Phase analysis revealed abnormal RWM in 19 of 21 diabetic patients. The mean left ventricular global ejection fraction, the mean regional ejection fraction and the mean 1/3 filling fraction were lower and the time to peak ejection, the time to peak filling and the time to peak ejection/cardiac cycle were longer in diabetics than in controls. We found high HbA1c levels in all diabetics. There was no significant difference between patients with and without retinopathy and with and without peripheral neuropathy in terms of left ventricular function and HbA1c levels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aydíner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aras
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oram
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gedik
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Bekdik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oram
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uğurlu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karamehmetoğlu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin