Study of Left Ventricular Function of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Without Cardiovascular Disease (DIACAR)

Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Type2 Diabetes

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: echocardiography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03736668

DIACAR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Type 2 diabetes is associated with high cardiovascular risk. Recent meta-analyzes suggest that the risk of hospitalization for heart failure in the diabetic is increased by 20% for each hemoglobin A1c point and that the risk of death from all causes or cardiovascular cause and the risk of hospitalization is significantly increased by 30 to 40% in patients with acute or chronic heart failure with diabetes.

Systematic analysis of cardiac function is not currently proposed in international recommendations even though some antidiabetic drugs have been associated with an increased risk of heart failure in large randomized controlled trials or an increase in adverse events in proof-of-concept studies of heart failure with or without diabetes. Observational studies suggest that hypoglycemic sulfonamides may increase the risk of developing heart failure. In contrast, two sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors (empagliflozin and canagliflozin) have recently demonstrated a significant reduction in hospitalizations for heart failure in two large randomized controlled trials.

The detection of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction is therefore essential to better assess the risk of cardiac decompensation and to identify the existence of possible contraindications to the use of certain classes of drugs used in diabetes. Recent studies suggest that the left ventricular ejection fraction measured on three-dimensional acquisitions is a prognostic value index greater than the ejection fraction measured by Simpson biplane method in two-dimensional ultrasound. Similarly, it seems that the analysis of global longitudinal deformation is a prognostic factor superior to the analysis of the ejection fraction (two-dimensional or three-dimensional). The investigators will analyze these different parameters to confirm these data.

Full description

The main objective of this study is to analyze left ventricular function by echocardiography in a prospective cohort of 200 patients with type 2 diabetes and without known cardiac dysfunction and to search for possible differences in clinical profile depending on the presence and type of cardiac function's impairment.

Patients will be classified into four categories according to the left ventricular function:

• Normal heart function
• Altered ejection fraction (<40%)
• Ejection fraction preserved (> 50%) with structural abnormality (left ventricular hypertrophy, left atrial dilatation) or diastolic dysfunction
• Moderately impaired ejection fraction "mid range" (40 to 49%)

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with age > 18 years
• Patient with type 2 diabetes with no history of proven cardiovascular disease
• Patient hospitalizes In Diabetes Week Hospital (HDS)
• Patient affiliated with a health insurance plan
• Patient able to give free, informed and express consent

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient with proven cardiovascular disease:

   • Acute coronary syndrome, revascularization of the myocardium, known and / or treated ischemic heart disease
   • Rhythmic disorders such as atrial fibrillation
   • Significant valvular disease known or treated by prosthetic valve
   • known and treated heart failure
   • Stroke
   • Symptomatic and / or revascularized arteritis
   • Pacemaker wearers
   • Cardiac Defibrillator Carriers

2. Patient with progressive cancer

3. Patient who has been treated with cardio-toxic chemotherapy or mediastinal radiotherapy

4. Patient under tutorship / curatorship

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with Type 2 diabetes

Experimental group

Description:

One year after patient's inclusion, during the additional cardiology consultation, an echocardiography will be performed by the investigator to evaluate any changes. Two years after the patient's inclusion, an investigator will contact by phone the general practitioner, cardiologist and / or diabetologist treating the patient to find out if any cardiovascular events occurred.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: echocardiography