A 65-year-old woman presents to her primary care provider with a chief complaint of "feeling winded" for the last 3 weeks.

Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural heart damage during growth from adolescence to young adulthood, a new study ...

In the present study, 1,595 adolescents drawn from the University of Bristol's Children of the 90s cohort were followed up from age 17 until 24 years. To assess the prevalence of prediabetes, which ...

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The prevalence of excessive heart enlargement (left ventricular hypertrophy ... This is due to the scarcity of repeated echocardiography assessments of the heart in a large population of healthy ...

Adolescent hyperglycemia and worsening insulin resistance (IR) are associated with an increased risk for worsening structural ...

Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction was normal (63%), while right ventricular (RV) ejection fraction was slightly reduced at 49%. LV diastolic function, measured using ultrasound echocardiography ...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and nature of cardiac abnormalities in patients with LHON by systematically evaluating cardiac structure and function using echocardiography ...