Myocardial Contractile Dysfunction Is Associated With Impaired Mitochondrial Function and Dynamics in Type 2 Diabetic but Not in Obese Patients

Abstract

Worsening of intrinsic myocardial contraction in the transition from obesity to diabetes mellitus is likely related to worsening of cardiac mitochondrial function because impaired mitochondrial function and dynamics and contractile dysfunction are observed in diabetic patients but not in "metabolically healthy" obese patients at early stage in insulin resistance.