“…4,6,7 In addition, because of advancing age and comorbidities, including hypertension and obesity, patients with type 2 diabetes are also prone to other cardiac pathologies affecting prognosis including but not limited to left ventricular hypertrophy, 8,9 reduced left and right ventricular ejection fraction, 10 dilated left atrium 11 or valve disorders. 12 However, previous reports on prevalence of echocardiographic findings were based on populations that were Abnormal echocardiography in patients with type 2 diabetes and relation to symptoms and clinical characteristics either small 6,7,13,14 from the primary care setting/general population 4,15,16 or included patients before the era of modern multifactorial treatment. 17 Even more, contemporary, intensive treatment of hypertension, hyperglycaemia, dyslipidemia and lifestyle factors 18 may have changed the risk profile for having echocardiographic abnormalities making it difficult to choose which patients to refer to echocardiography.…”