World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS AND DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; 100 CASES

Sadia Batool, Muhammad Bilal Mushtaq and *Muhammad Talha Tahir

ABSTRACT

Objective; Frequency of diastolic dysfunction in patients having type II DM Methodology; This was a cross sectional study that was conducted at Medical department of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan during May to October 2017. In this study 100 cases were selected via non probability consecutive sampling irrespective of gender and having age group of 35 to 70 years with history of type II DM lasting for at least 2 years. Diastolic dysfunction was labeled on echocardiography and where E/A ratio of less than 0.8 was labelled as yes. Results; In this study, there were 100 cases of type II DM. The mean age of the participants was 54.12±7.56 years. There were total 56 (56%) males and mean duration of DM was 7.78±2.23 years. Diastolic dysfunction was seen in 50 (50%) of the cases. there was no significant difference in terms of gender and different age groups with p values of 0.92 and 0.51 respectively. Diastolic dysfunction was seen significantly high in cases that had Type II DM for more than 5 years affecting 39 (54.92%) cases as compared to 11 (37.93%) cases with duration less than this with p value of 0.02. Conclusion; Diastolic dysfunction is very common and is seen in every other cases of Type II DM and is significantly high in cases with duration of DM for more than 5 years.

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