1. Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Distributions of the Ankle-Brachial Index among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.
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Doza, Badaruddoza, Kaur, Manpreet, Chopra, Sonia, and Kapoor, Rohit
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TYPE 2 diabetes diagnosis ,PATIENT selection ,ACADEMIC medical centers ,BLOOD pressure ,BLOOD pressure measurement ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors ,PEOPLE with diabetes ,GENETICS ,HYPERTENSION ,DATA analysis ,BODY mass index ,ANKLE brachial index ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Background. The aim of present study is to observe the association between the levels of ankle-brachial index (ABI) and cardiovascular risk factors among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in north India. A cross-sectional study was carried out at a centre for heart and diabetic clinic in the state of Punjab on 1121 subjects (671 males and 450 females) with type 2 diabetes mellitus. History of symptoms related to cardiovascular diseases was noted, and blood pressure and anthropometric measurements were recorded. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) was measured using ultrasonic Doppler flow detector. Subjects with ABI ⩽0.9 and ⩾1.30 were classified as having low and high ABI, respectively. Females had a higher BMI and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (P < 0.001).Whereas,males had higher diastolic blood pressure and duration of type 2 diabetesmellitus. The differences of systolic blood pressure and ankle-brachial index were not found significant between the sexes. The prevalence of low ABI (<0.9) was 4.47% in men and 4.67% in women and high ABI (⩾1.30) was prevalent in 14% of men and 10.45% of women. Age, BMI, baPWV, and blood pressures were significantly associated with ABI value in both sexes. The results suggested that the ABI might be used as a strong indicator for cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetic subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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