Female is Associated with Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes [Response to Letter]

Yiting Wang,^1,* Yikun Zhou,^1,* Yonghong Zhang,¹ Qiuting Ren,² Yan Wang,² Heng Su<sup>1

1</sup>Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China; ²Echocardiogram Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence: Yan Wang; Heng Su, Email [email protected]; [email protected]

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This is in response to the Letter to the Editor

Dear editor

We received a letter to the editor which gave us some comments on the study. These comments are valuable and we would like to respond.

1. About the title: we think the suggested title indicated the most important part of our research. However, we also investigated the association between gender and LVDD.

2. Thanks for the comments, we found a mistake caused by carelessness in the original manuscript, we did put the ratio of the all age groups (see in Table 1) (female vs male, 54.5% vs 46.9%, P<0.05) into the age group of 45–60 years old accidentally. The correct one should be: The incidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction had no difference between male and female [female vs male, 16.5% (23/139) vs 13.8% (52/378), P > 0.05] in patients less than 45 years old, and in patients between 45–60 years old [female vs male, 60.7% (184/303) vs 57.6% (381/662), P > 0.05], and in patients more than 60 years old (female vs male, 80.2% (105/131) vs 80.0% (132/165), P > 0.05). We think the sample size became smaller in the separated groups.

Abbreviation: ns, not statistically significant.

And Figure 3 should be:

3. As your comments, this was a cross-sectional study, we used the Logistic regression to investigate the associations, so we should use OR instead of HR for presentation.

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this communication.