Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume: 7 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 257-260
Observational Study to Evaluate the Correlation among Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Serum Uric Acid Level in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Diastolic Heart Failure
Rajeev Ranjan
Consultant Physician, Chest Clinic, Chapra, Bihar, India
ABSTRACT
Objective: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the correlation among left ventricular ejection fraction and serum uric acid level in type 2 diabetic patients with diastolic heart failure.
Methods: This was a retrospective study which was conducted at a tertiary out patients department clinic in Bihar. Patients data were recorded from the patients OPD chart, clinical reports and mainly from the clinical records maintain at the investigation centres. Demographic data were collected by using predesigned proforma in Microsoft excel sheet and serological test data were noted from patient clinical record sheet.
Results: It was observed that 70% of patients were having ejection fraction less than 40 along with serum uric acid level bellow 6.8 mg/dl where as 30% had high uric acid levels with ejection fraction >40. The difference between this two category was statistically significant (P=0.001). It is observed that in patients with heart failure poor prognosis is associated with high uric acid and it is statistically significant, p = 0.001
Conclusion: Low levels of ejection fraction are significantly correlated with the high levels of serum uric acids. This study also concludes that in diabetic heart failure uric acid is an important prognostic factor.
Keywords: Diabetes, uric acid level, ejection fraction, diastolic heart failure.
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