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Prediction of Mortality Using Measures of Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction in the Diabetic and Nondiabetic Population

The MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study

  1. Dan Ziegler, MD, FRCPE1,
  2. Christian P. Zentai, MD1,
  3. Siegfried Perz, MSC2,
  4. Wolfgang Rathmann, MD, MSPH3,
  5. Burkhard Haastert, PHD3,
  6. Angela Döring, MD4,
  7. Christa Meisinger, MD4 and
  8. for the KORA Study Group
  1. 1Institute for Clinical Diabetes Research, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
  2. 2Institute of Medical Informatics, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
  3. 3Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
  4. 4Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
  1. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Dan Ziegler, FRCPE, Institut für Klinische Diabetologie, Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum, Leibniz-Zentrum an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Auf'm Hennekamp 65, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. E-mail: dan.ziegler{at}ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Diabetes Care 2008 Mar; 31(3): 556-561. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc07-1615
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OBJECTIVES—To evaluate whether reduced heart rate variability (HRV), prolonged corrected QT (QTc) interval, or increased QT dispersion (QTD) are predictors of mortality in the general diabetic and nondiabetic population.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Nondiabetic (n = 1,560) and diabetic (n = 160) subjects aged 55–74 years were assessed to determine whether reduced HRV, prolonged QTc interval, and increased QTD may predict all-cause mortality. Lowest quartiles for the maximum-minimum R-R interval difference (max-min, as measured at baseline from a 20-s standard 12-lead resting electrocardiogram without controlling for depth and rate of respiration), QTc >440 ms and QTD >60 ms, were used as cutpoints.

RESULTS—During a 9-year follow-up, 10.5% of the nondiabetic and 30.6% of the diabetic population deceased. In the nondiabetic individuals, multivariate Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors and demographic variables showed that prolonged QTc interval (hazard ratio 2.02 [95% CI 1.29–3.17]; P = 0.002) but not low max-min (0.93 [0.65–1.34]; P = 0.700), and increased QTD (0.98 [0.60–1.60]; P = 0.939) were associated with increased mortality. In the diabetic subjects, prolonged QTc was also a predictor of mortality (3.00 [1.34–6.71]; P = 0.007), while a trend for an increased risk was noted in those with low max-min (1.74 [0.95–3.18]; P = 0.075), whereas increased QTD did not predict mortality (0.42 [0.06–3.16]; P = 0.402).

CONCLUSIONS—Prolonged QTc interval, but not increased QTD, is an independent predictor of a twofold and threefold increased risk of mortality in the nondiabetic and diabetic elderly general population, respectively. Low HRV during spontaneous breathing tends to be associated with excess mortality in the diabetic but not nondiabetic population.

  • ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
  • CAN, cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy
  • CVD, cardiovascular disease
  • ECG, electrocardiogram
  • HRV, heart rate variability
  • KORA, Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg
  • max-min, maximum-minimum R-R interval difference
  • MONICA, Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease
  • SDNN, SD of R-R intervals

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  • Published ahead of print at http://care.diabetesjournals.org on 17 December 2007. DOI: 10.2337/dc07-1615.

    The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

    • Accepted December 11, 2007.
    • Received August 15, 2007.
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Dan Ziegler, Christian P. Zentai, Siegfried Perz, Wolfgang Rathmann, Burkhard Haastert, Angela Döring, Christa Meisinger
Diabetes Care Mar 2008, 31 (3) 556-561; DOI: 10.2337/dc07-1615

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Dan Ziegler, Christian P. Zentai, Siegfried Perz, Wolfgang Rathmann, Burkhard Haastert, Angela Döring, Christa Meisinger
Diabetes Care Mar 2008, 31 (3) 556-561; DOI: 10.2337/dc07-1615
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