1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, Guwahati
2Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Silchar Medical College & Hospital, Silchar
India has become the Diabetic hub of the world. Ischaemic changes increases the morbidity and mortality of the diabetic patients.
Coronary artery disease often silently kills Type2 diabetic patients. We therefore, aimed to study the prevalence of silent ischemic changes in clinically asymptomatic Type2 diabetic patients using Treadmill exercise test.
This is a cross-sectional study. The Treadmill test (TMT) was performed on fifty patients of Type2 diabetes mellitus, asymptomatic of coronary artery disease. Modified Bruce protocol was used to detect ischemic changes.
Out of the 50 patients, 33(66%) were male and 17(34%) were females. The results of Treadmill test showed that there is prevalence of Coronary artery disease in the study population. 26(52%) showed positive and 24(48%) showed negative TMT findings. We also compared the mean age and BMI between TMT positive and negative patients using t-test. It showed highly significant results(p<0.01).
Ischemic changes of heart in Type2 diabetic patients can well be diagnosed using Treadmill test even if they remain clinically asymptomatic.
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