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How diabetes affects the heart? Researchers discovered that girls whose diabetes type 2 is poorly controlled are likely to have structural and functional cardiac abnormalities than their healthy peers or other girls with diabetes type 1.
Gillian A. Whalley from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and co-researchers claim that type 2 diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases among adolescents. The study has been performed on 8 girls with type 2 diabetes and 11 with type 1 diabetes, there was also a control group of 9 lean and 11 overweight girls. All the girls were at similar age and height but it turned out that those with type 2 diabetes weigh more than nondiabetic overweight girls. Then, the girls' hearts were checked by echocardiography, they revealed that the left ventricular is greater in type 2 diabetes group than in any other group. Both diabetic groups showed impairments during the diastolic phase of heart contraction whereas only type 2 diabetes had also reduced function of the heart during the systolic phase.
This study demonstrates how adolescent-onset type 2 diabetes affects cardiac health.
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2009-05-14 12:39:52 ,
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2009-05-14 12:46:46
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