Table 3.

Speckle tracking echocardiography derived peak LV circumferential and longitudinal strain and strain rate of T1DM patients and healthy controls

	Type 1 diabetes mellitus		Control	p-value
	Blood glucose level <150 mg/dl	Blood glucose level >150 mg/dl
	(n = 17)	(n = 22)	(n = 44)
Circumferential strain	-24.24 ± 3.11	-28.81 ± 4.84	-25.95 ± 3.92	0.003
Circumferential strain rate	-1.96 ± 0.26	-2.12 ± 0.40	-1.86 ± 0.25	0.005
Global longitudinal strain	-19.55 ± 2.27	-20.57 ± 2.41	-20.72 ± 2.49	n.s.
Global longitudinal strain rate	-1.51 ± 0.26	-1.85 ± 0.51	-1.55 ± 0.21	0.002

p-values are calculated with one way ANOVA and post hoc test, level of significance = 0.00625