Table 1.
Clinical and biochemical characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes stratified by presence or absence of NAFLD.
Table 2.
Main echocardiographic characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes stratified by presence or absence of NAFLD.
Fig 1.
Prevalence of NAFLD in relation to echocardiographic grades of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) in patients with type 2 diabetes.
P-value <0.001 for the trend among the three groups of patients (as assessed by the χ2 test).
Table 3.
Independent predictors of the presence of mild and/or moderate LV diastolic dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes.