Diabetes mellitus is a disease considered as metabolic with endocrine origin and has been linked to cardiovascular disease. Troponin T is a skeletal and cardiac muscle protein which is elevated in myocardial injury. Hence this study aims to evaluate cardiac troponin T in type 2 diabetics. A total of three hundred volunteers consisting of one hundred and eighty diabetics and one hundred and twenty healthy individuals with sex and age matched were recruited for the study. Anthropometric variables were measured and blood glucose and troponin T were evaluated using standard methods. There was a significantly higher body mass index, blood glucose and troponin T in diabetes mellitus than in control individuals. It is therefore pertinent to state that troponin T is raised in diabetes mellitus which may expose them to cardiac injury.
Author(s): Digban Awharentomah Kester (1), Adu Matthew Eturhobore (2), Adenuga Mary Abiodun (3)
