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SUBMITTER: Park CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4905519 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Chloe M CM Tillin Therese T March Katherine K Ghosh Arjun K AK Jones Siana S Wright Andrew A Heasman John J Francis Darrel D Sattar Naveed N Mayet Jamil J Chaturvedi Nish N Hughes Alun D AD
Diabetes care 20131115 4
OBJECTIVE Diabetes is associated with left ventricular (LV) diastolic and systolic dysfunction. South Asians may be at particular risk of developing LV dysfunction owing to a high prevalence of diabetes. We investigated the role of diabetes and hyperglycemia in LV dysfunction in a community-based cohort of older South Asians and white Europeans. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Conventional and Doppler echocardiography was performed in 999 participants (542 Europeans and 457 South Asians aged 58-86 y ...[more]