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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes-Progress and Perspectives.

Elena-Daniela Grigorescu, Cristina-Mihaela Lacatusu, Mariana Floria, Bogdan-Mircea Mihai, Ioana Cretu, Laurentiu Sorodoc

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elena-Daniela GrigorescuDiabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-7721-554X
Cristina-Mihaela LacatusuDiabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania. cristina.lacatusu@umfiasi.ro.ORCID 0000-0002-9012-5901
Mariana Floria"Sf. Spiridon" Emergency Hospital, 700111 Iași, Romania. floria_mariana@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9465-1503
Bogdan-Mircea MihaiDiabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania. bogdan.mihai@umfiasi.ro.
Ioana CretuDepartment Preventive Medicine and Interdisciplinarity, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iași, Romania. ioana.cretu@umfiasi.ro.
Laurentiu Sorodoc"Sf. Spiridon" Emergency Hospital, 700111 Iași, Romania. laurentiu.sorodoc@gmail.com.
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In-depth understanding of early cardiovascular manifestations in diabetes is high on international research and prevention agendas given that cardiovascular events are the leading cause of death for diabetic patients. Our aim was to review recent developments in the echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) as a telltale pre-clinical disturbance preceding diabetic cardiomyopathy. We analyzed papers in which patients had been comprehensively assessed echocardiographically according to the latest LVDD guidelines (2016), and those affording comparisons with previous, widely used recommendations (2009). We found that the updated algorithm for LVDD is more effective in predicting adverse cardiovascular events in patients with established LVDD, and less specific in grading other patients (labelled "indeterminate"). This may prove instrumental for recruiting "indeterminate" LVDD cases among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in future screening programs. As an interesting consideration, the elevated values of the index E/e' can point to early diastolic impairment, foretelling diabetic cardiomyopathy. Identifying subclinical signs early makes clinical sense, but the complex nature of T2DM calls for further research. Specifically, longitudinal studies on rigorously selected cohorts of diabetic patients are needed to better understand and predict the subtle, slow onset of cardiac manifestations with T2DM as a complicating backdrop.

Indexed as

diabetic cardiomyopathyechocardiographyE/e’ indexleft ventricular diastolic dysfunctiontype 2 diabetes

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PMID31533216
PMCPMC6787758
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