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Patients on maintenance hemodialysis are a group with high cardiovascular risk, characterized by high arterial stiffness, which is considered a novel cardiovascular risk factor. Diabetes mellitus is both one of the leading causes of end-stage renal disease and a determinant of poor outcome in this group. The aim of the study was to examine carotid stiffness with high resolution echo-tracking in order to assess the influence of diabetes mellitus on arterial stiffness in this group.
Ninety patients (47 F; 43 M) with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis were divided into two subgroups: diabetic and nondiabetic (37 and 53 patients respectively). They underwent clinical examination, laboratory tests, and ultrasonographic carotid stiffness assessment both before and after hemodialysis. Local arterial stiffness parameters β, Ep, AC, and PWVβ were calculated. Patient survival was assessed after a 58-month-long follow-up. During the 58-month period 25 of these diabetic patients died, as did 18 non-diabetic patients. Diabetes mellitus was a risk factor for overall mortality among the group of hemodialysed patients. Patients who died from non-cardiovascular causes significantly more often suffered from diabetes mellitus than survivors. There were no statistically significant differences in local arterial stiffness between the groups.
Local arterial stiffness in hemodialysed patients, assessed with high resolution echo-tracking, is not influenced by the presence of diabetes.
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Patients on maintenance hemodialysis are a group with high cardiovascular risk, characterized by high arterial stiffness, which is considered a novel cardiovascular risk factor. Diabetes mellitus is both one of the leading causes of end-stage renal disease and a determinant of poor outcome in this group. The aim of the study was to examine carotid stiffness with high resolution echo-tracking in order to assess the influence of diabetes mellitus on arterial stiffness in this group.
Ninety patients (47 F; 43 M) with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis were divided into two subgroups: diabetic and nondiabetic (37 and 53 patients respectively). They underwent clinical examination, laboratory tests, and ultrasonographic carotid stiffness assessment both before and after hemodialysis. Local arterial stiffness parameters β, Ep, AC, and PWVβ were calculated. Patient survival was assessed after a 58-month-long follow-up. During the 58-month period 25 of these diabetic patients died, as did 18 non-diabetic patients. Diabetes mellitus was a risk factor for overall mortality among the group of hemodialysed patients. Patients who died from non-cardiovascular causes significantly more often suffered from diabetes mellitus than survivors. There were no statistically significant differences in local arterial stiffness between the groups.
Local arterial stiffness in hemodialysed patients, assessed with high resolution echo-tracking, is not influenced by the presence of diabetes.

Diabetes mellitus type 2 does not influence carotid stiffness in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

T. Marciniak Specialist Lower Silesian Hospital

Department of Internal and Occupational Diseases, Hypertension and Clinical Oncology

Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine

Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej

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Patients on maintenance hemodialysis are a group with high cardiovascular risk, characterized by high arterial stiffness, which is considered a novel...

Diabetes mellitus type 2 does not influence carotid stiffness in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 1012 - 1019

Received: Mar 08, 2021

Accepted: Aug 17, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahem-2021-0046

Keywords
Chronic kidney disease, echo-tracking, diabetes mellitus, hemodialysis, arterial stiffness

© 2021 Brzychczy-Włoch et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Diabetes mellitus type 2 does not influence carotid stiffness in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 1012 - 1019

Received: Mar 08, 2021

Accepted: Aug 17, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahem-2021-0046

KeywordsChronic kidney disease, echo-tracking, diabetes mellitus, hemodialysis, arterial stiffness

© 2021 Brzychczy-Włoch et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Chronic kidney disease, echo-tracking, diabetes mellitus, hemodialysis, arterial stiffness