Diastolic function and its association with diabetes, hypertension and age in an outpatient population with normal stres
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(2020) 18:46
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Diastolic function and its association with diabetes, hypertension and age in an outpatient population with normal stress echocardiography findings Martin G. Sundqvist1, Anders Sahlén2,3, Zee Pin Ding2 and Martin Ugander3,4*
Abstract Background: Diastolic dysfunction can be caused by hypertension or diabetes mellitus, and it is also often found with increasing age. In a given patient, the cause of diastolic dysfunction is therefore not always obvious. We sought to study the interplay of these risk factors for diastolic dysfunction in an outpatient population with a low likelihood of ischemic heart disease. Methods: Consecutive patients referred for stress echocardiography were included retrospectively. Exclusion criteria included pathological stress response, atrial arrhythmia, left ventricular ejection fraction < 55%, and more than mild valvular disease. Standard diastolic parameters were recorded in all patients. In a subset of patients, mechanistic analysis of early filling was performed using the parameterized diastolic filling (PDF) method. Results: We included 726 patients (median [interquartile range] age 56 (44–65) years, 57% male). The prevalence of diabetes and hypertension was 43 and 49%, respectively. In multiple linear regression modeling, the presence of diabetes, hypertension, sex and increasing age explained a moderate amount of the variance in e’ velocities, E/A ratio and E/e’ (R2 = 0.31–0.48, p < 0.001), and a low amount of the variance in left atrial volume index (LAVI) and the PDF parameters (n = 446, R2 = 0.05–0.17, p < 0.001). Sex was only related to LAVI and E/e’ for the conventional parameters (beta − 0.94, p = 0.04, and beta − 0.91, p < 0.001, respectively). Conclusions: Diabetes, hypertension, increasing age, and to a lesser extent sex, explain a moderate amount of the variance in conventional diastolic parameters related to myocardial tissue velocities and E/A ratio in a healthy outpatient population. The effect of these risk factors was substantially less pronounced on left atrial volume index and the PDF parameters. Keywords: Echocardiography, Diastolic function, Hypertension, Diabetes mellitus, Ageing
* Correspondence: [email protected] 3 Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital, and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, and Northern Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, u
