Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death for diabetics, and in many cases its presence is silent due to cardiac autonomic neuropathy. Thus, early diagnosis of coronary disease is essential, permitting proper risk stratification and appropriate therapy. This paper examines the usefulness of several noninvasive imaging techniques to study cardiovascular diseases in individuals with diabe...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore the relationship between autonomic nerve dysfunction-assessed by cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy risk score (CAN-RS)-and ocular abnormality in Chinese type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHOD This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 335 subjects with T2DM were enrolled. The state of visual acuity, the lens, the vitreous, and the fundus were tested by...

Objective.The aim of this study was to compare SUDOSCAN, a new device to evaluate sweat function (reflecting peripheral small C-fiber status), with conventional measures of peripheral and cardiac neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods.265 diabetic patients were tested for symptoms and clinical signs of neuropathy using Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI), vibration per...

Abstract Background Sudden cardiac deaths are twice more frequent in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy. death etiologies remain unclear and no recommendations made to identify factors associated cardiorespiratory arrest patients. We hypothesized, from two clinical cases, that impaired hypoxic ventilatory drive, induced by neuropathy, is a cause of misdiagnosed severe events. Case pres...

Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is one of the most clinically significant complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), but one of the least frequently diagnosed. In this review, we discuss the major risk factors for the development and progression of CAN in patients with DM, the natural history of autonomic neuropathy and its impact on cardiovascular disease in DM, as well as the tests fo...

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old man underwent routine blood tests that revealed a fasting blood glucose value of 105 mg/dL and hemoglobin A1c of 6.2%, resulting in a diagnosis of early type 2 diabetes mellitus. Resting 12-lead ECG showed deep S-wave in LIII and R-wave in aVL, indicating early left ventricular hypertrophy; no signs of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) were found. Stress ECG de...

Cardiac damage has been attributed to SARS-CoV-2-related pathology contributing increased risk of vascular events. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a parameter functional neurocardiac integrity with low HRV constituting an independent predictor cardiovascular mortality. Whether structural cardiac translates into dysfunction in patients infected SARS-CoV-2 remains poorly understood. Hypothesized ...