JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v5i4.2466 jpsim.v5i4.2466 Original Research Comparison of Left Ventricular Mass Index and Prolonged QT Interval in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Raffad drraffad@gmail.com * Kamal Asma Meherjan Deepan Malik Kafayatullah Ahmad Arslan Services Hospital Lahore Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad *Correspondence: Raffad (drraffad@gmail.com) 09 12 2024 2024 5 4 694 698 02 07 2024 10 11 2024 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To compare left ventricular mass index and QT interval in type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic patients.

 Methodology

108 patients with 54 in each group were inducted. Group A (case) were diabetic type 2 and group B (control)

were non-diabetic. The study was conducted in the medicine department of Lahore General hospital.

 Results

In this study, the mean age in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects was 47.54 ± 9.25 and 44.53 ± 10.53 respectively

with no significant difference, p-value = 0.199. In the diabetic group, there were 29 (53.70%) males and 25 (46.30%)

females while in the non-diabetic group there were 27 (50%) male and 27 (50%) female patients. The mean LVMI in

diabetic patients was significantly higher (129.48±30.72) as compared to control (49.30) with p-value

 Conclusion

The results of this study suggest that both LVMI and QT interval are higher in diabetic population when

compared to non-diabetic subjects. Early screening and proper diagnosis must be adopted in type 2 diabetic patients as

they are very prone to develop higher left ventricular mass and deranged QT interval can further lead to significant

cardiovascular risk because left ventricular hypertrophy and deranged QT interval are absolute risk factors for ventricular

arrhythmia, infarction of myocardium, coronary artery disease, cardiac failure and sudden mortality.

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