5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography detects early left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in type 2 diabetes more sensitively than traditional methods.

• 2

  The study included 188 patients with type 2 diabetes and 119 age-matched controls, all with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.

• 3

  Early diastolic longitudinal strain rate had the highest diagnostic value with an area under the curve of 0.661, sensitivity of 63.3%, and specificity of 68.1%.

• 4

  Traditional echocardiography classified 84.6% of patients with type 2 diabetes as having normal diastolic function, despite many showing abnormal strain rates.

• 5

  Combining traditional and strain echocardiographic parameters improved diagnostic performance, achieving an area under the curve of 74%.