Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Identifies Patients With Worse Cardiorespiratory Fitness In Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction And Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is an important prognostic indicator of morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure (HF), especially in those with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is an objective and reproducible method to estimate the edema index (EI), a surrogate for extracellular volume status. Whether an increase in the EI estimated by BIA can identify patients with reduced CRF is unknown. We hypothesized that in patients with HF and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and T2DM, an increased EI would inversely correlate with measures of CRF.

Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - September 30, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Amr Marawan, Georgia Thomas, Hayley Billingsley, Justin Canada, Dinesh Kadariya, Dave Dixon, Roshanak Markley, Cory Trankle, George Wohlford, Juan Chiabrando, Alessandra Vecchi é, Benjamin Van Tassell, Ross Arena, Antonio Abbate, Salvatore Carbone Tags: 130 Source Type: research