1Associate Professor of General Medicine, Sri Lakshmi Naryana Institute of Medical Sciences, Bharath University, Puducherry
2Professor of General Medicine, Sri Lakshmi Naryana Institute of Medical Sciences, Bharath University, Puducherry
3Junior Resident of General Medicine, Sri Lakshmi Naryana Institute of Medical Sciences, Bharath University, Puducherry
4Professor of Biochemistry and Central Lab Head, Sri Lakshmi Naryana Institute of Medical Sciences, Bharath University, Puducherry
*Corresponding Author: Dr. C. Aravind Professor of General Medicine, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry Mobile No. +919159186879 Email: drsarulmurugan@yahoo.com
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder is one of the most common risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Diabetic individuals exhibit 2 to 5 fold increased risk of developing MI and even silent myocardial ischemic. Detection of CAD before its associated morbidity is reasonable and life saving. One of the well known non-invasive relatively inexpensive rest in detected IHD is treadmill test.
To find out the asymptomatic exertional coronary ischemia in patient with diabetes mellitus of 10 yrs duration.
For those patients of 10 yrs duration of diabetes who are attending our diabetic and medicine OPD conducted cross sectional observational study. After getting the consent, patients were made to run on TMT.
76.5% of the patients demonstrated positive TMT.
Diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, Tread Mill Test
