Table 2.
Echocardiographic measures of left ventricular function in cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus and controls
| Variable | Type 1 diabetes mellitus (n = 55) Mean ± SD |
Control (n = 55) Mean ± SD |
P valuea |
|---|---|---|---|
| LV E/E′ | 9.49 ± 2.78 | 6.87 ± 1.99 | <0.0001 |
| LV Tei index | 0.524 ± 0.137 | 0.391 ± 0.088 | <0.0001 |
| 3D LV GLS (%) | 15.0 ± 4.3 | 20.9 ± 1.7 | <0.0001 |
| 3D LV EDV (mL) | 76.8 ± 18.6 | 72.5 ± 13.3 | 0.296 |
| 3D LV EF (%) | 60.4 ± 4.3 | 58.5 ± 3.5 | 0.050 |
| RV E/E′ | 7.90 ± 3.54 | 6.03 ± 3.12 | 0.024 |
| RV Tei index | 0.511 ± 0.173 | 0.418 ± 0.131 | 0.017 |
| 3D RV GLS (%) | 14.8 ± 4.5 | 20.2 ± 3.0 | <0.0001 |
Data are mean and SD.
3D, three dimensional; CI, confidence interval; LV EDV, left ventricular end diastolic volume; LV E/E′, ratio of early mitral inflow velocity to average early mitral annular and basal septal diastolic velocities; LV EF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LV GLS, left ventricular global longitudinal strain; RV E/E′, ratio of early tricuspid inflow velocity to early diastolic tricuspid annular velocity; RV GLS, right ventricular global longitudinal strain.
a
Unpaired t-test.