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  • Title: Association of subclinical myocardial injury with arterial stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    Author: Yiu KH, Zhao CT, Chen Y, Siu CW, Chan YH, Lau KK, Liu S, Lau CP, Tse HF.
    Journal: Cardiovasc Diabetol; 2013 Jun 22; 12():94. PubMed ID: 23799879.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with subclinical myocardial injury although the underlying mechanism is uncertain. We postulated that arterial stiffness, endothelial dysfunction and subclinical atherosclerosis may contribute to subclinical myocardial injury in patients with T2DM. METHODS: Serum high-sensitivity troponin I (hs-TNI) an indicator of myocardial injury, was measured in 100 patients with T2DM without clinical evidence of macrovascular disease and 150 age and gender-matched controls. Elevated hs-TnI was defined as follow (derived from the 99th percentile from controls): Male >11.1 ng/L; female >7.6 ng/L. Measures that may contribute to myocardial damage in patients with T2DM, including brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (ba-PWV), brachial flow mediated dilatation (FMD) and carotid intima media thickness (IMT), were also assessed. RESULTS: The serum level of hs-TNI (5.7 ± 9.2 μg/L vs. 3.2 ± 1.9 μg/L, P< 0.01) and the prevalence of elevated hs-TNI (12% vs. 4%, P = 0.02) were significantly higher in patients with T2DM than controls. Patients with T2DM also had significantly worse ba-PWV (17.98 ± 3.91ms-1 vs. 15.70 ± 2.96 ms-1), brachial FMD (2.6 ± 3.5% vs. 5.5 ± 4.2%, P< 0.01) and carotid IMT (0.96 ± 0.20 mm vs. 0.86 ± 0.14 mm, P< 0.01). In patients with T2DM, hs-TNI was positively correlated with systolic blood pressure (r = 0.31, P<0.01), serum creatinine (r = 0.26, P = 0.01) and ba-PWV (r = 0.34, P< 0.01). Importantly, multiple regression revealed that only ba-PWV was independently associated with hs-TNI (β = 0.25, P = 0.04). CONCLUSION: The results demonstrated an independent association between ba-PWV and hs-TNI in patients with T2DM with no clinical evidence of macrovascular disease. These findings suggest that increased arterial stiffness is closely related to subclinical myocardial injury in patients with T2DM.
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