Correlation  of Duration of Diabetes With Cardiac Autonomic Function Tests in Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Chhaya Ahire; Varsha Sarode

Volume : III, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

Correlation of Duration of Diabetes With Cardiac Autonomic Function Tests in Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Chhaya Ahire, Varsha Sarode

Abstract :

Background and objectives: There are very few asian studies that have shown the correlation between duration of diabetes and cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients ,as in type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM) autonomic abnormalities are almost the rule. So we undertook this study. Research Design and Methodology: This study is a cross sectional comparative study, which involved 60 randomly selected patients with type II DM (Group I- 30, short duration of 0-5 years and group II- 30, long duration of >5 years) and 30 healthy controls. The results obtained by performing cardiac autonomic function tests to which score where given. Then, for each patient, Average score was obtained. Pearson�s correlation analysis was performed, by taking all test parameters, score as depended variable & duration as independent variable Results and conclusion: The study showed that as the duration of diabetes mellitus increases, susceptibility to CAN also increase accordingly.