Effect of Insulin Glargine on Cardiovascular Risk Analysed by Mean HRV
- 1 Internal Medicine Department, Alfredo Fiorini Hospital, Terracina, Italy
- 2 Nursing Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 3 Nursing Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 4 Nursing Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 5 Internal Medicine Department, Alfredo Fiorini Hospital, Terracina, Italy
- 6 Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Abstract
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an insidious disease that is increasingly present in geriatric population [ 1 ]. The greatest difficulty is represented by glycaemic control in geriatric patients often not very compliant with diet therapy and drug therapy. A new insulin glargine 300 units/ml formulation seems improve patient compliance due to the lower volume of insulin to be injected and improved glycaemic control over 24 hours. The HRV signal, derived from digital electrocardiographic recording, is the simplest and most immediate analysis that consists in calculating some temporal parameters [ 2 ]. HRV is a simple statistics derived from beat-beat intervals of sinus origin expressed as units of time in milliseconds. Data in the literature indicate that a decrease in HRV, measured with time domain analysis, denotes a worse prognosis and/or an increased risk of mortality in patients with heart disease, especially in the elderly ones.
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