Diabetes Mellitus Type 2NCT07839208
Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension in T2DM With Microalbuminuria
An observational study of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, run by Assiut University at 1 site in Egypt.
Trial summary
This is a cross-sectional observational study comparing echocardiographic markers of left ventricular diastolic function and pulmonary artery systolic pressure among healthy controls and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, stratified by albuminuria status (normal, microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria) according to… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
- How many people
- 120 participants
- Where
- 1 siteEgypt
- Study dates
- 5 Oct 2026to 5 Jun 2029
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Patients recruited from Cardiology and Internal Medicine/Endocrinology outpatient clinics and inpatient wards at Assiut University Hospital, Upper Egypt, along with age- and sex-matched non-diabetic controls.
Who may be able to join
- Four groups will be recruited: (1) healthy, non-diabetic controls, age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups; (2) T2DM with normal albuminuria (KDIGO A1, urine ACR <30 mg/g); (3) T2DM with microalbuminuria (KDIGO A2, ACR 30-300 mg/g); (4) T2DM with macroalbuminuria (KDIGO A3, ACR >300 mg/g). Diabetic groups: adult patients (≥18 years) with an established diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Control group: adults (≥18 years) without diabetes (confirmed by fasting glucose/HbA1c), age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups. All groups: willingness and ability to provide informed consent.
Who cannot join
- Type 1 diabetes or secondary forms of diabetes; known primary valvular heart disease (moderate or greater); prior myocardial infarction or established coronary artery disease with regional wall motion abnormality; reduced ejection fraction (EF < 50%) on screening echocardiography; chronic kidney disease stage ≥4 or dialysis dependence; known chronic lung disease or other secondary causes of pulmonary hypertension unrelated to left heart disease; atrial fibrillation or other rhythm disturbance precluding reliable diastolic assessment; pregnancy. Note: systemic hypertension is not an exclusion criterion, given its high prevalence as a diabetes comorbidity; it will instead be recorded and analyzed as a covariate.
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Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
Egypt1 site
Assiut University Hospital
Asyut, Asyut Governorate, 71515
Shady A Omar, MBBCh, 01028792280, elsdfyshady@gmail.com
Mohamed Faisal Adawy, Lecturer, +20 10 1244126, DR-m.faisal85m@aun.edu.eg
About this study
Official title: Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus With Microalbuminuria in Upper Egypt
This is a cross-sectional observational study comparing echocardiographic markers of left ventricular diastolic function and pulmonary artery systolic pressure among healthy controls and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, stratified by albuminuria status (normal, microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria) according to KDIGO 2024 criteria. The study is being conducted in Upper Egypt and aims to characterize the relationship between the albuminuria spectrum and cardiac diastolic/pulmonary vascular involvement in type 2 diabetes, alongside glycemic control and diabetes duration.
Read the detailed description
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with subclinical cardiac abnormalities that often precede overt heart failure. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is characterized early by impaired left ventricular relaxation and increased filling pressures, detectable echocardiographically as left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD), frequently before any drop in ejection fraction. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is increasingly recognized as a comorbid finding in diabetic populations, potentially arising secondary to diastolic dysfunction, microvascular disease, or both.
Albuminuria is a graded marker of generalized microvascular endothelial dysfunction in diabetes, classified by KDIGO 2024 criteria into normal-to-mildly-increased, moderately increased (microalbuminuria), and severely increased (macroalbuminuria) categories, corresponding to progressive cardiovascular and renal risk. While microalbuminuria in isolation has been linked to adverse cardiopulmonary outcomes, the relationship between the full albuminuria spectrum and echocardiographic indices of diastolic dysfunction and PH has not been well characterized, particularly against a non-diabetic control benchmark, in an Upper Egyptian population.
This protocol compares standard transthoracic echocardiographic markers of diastolic dysfunction and PH, alongside glycemic control (HbA1c) and diabetes duration, across four groups: healthy controls and T2DM patients with normal albuminuria, microalbuminuria, and macroalbuminuria.
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
- Medical subject headings
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Group 1 | Group/Cohort Label: Healthy Controls Description: Non-diabetic adults, age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups, confirmed by fasting glucose/HbA1c. | |
| Group 2 | Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Normoalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and normal urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (KDIGO A1, ACR <30 mg/g). | |
| Group 3 | Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Microalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and moderately increased albuminuria (KDIGO A2, ACR 30-300 mg/g). | |
| Group 4 | Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Macroalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and severely increased albuminuria (KDIGO A3, ACR >300 mg/g). |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension Across Albuminuria Groups
Title: Prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) Description: Percentage of participants with LVDD, defined by the 2016 ASE/EACVI algorithm using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the control, T2DM-normoalbuminuria, T2DM-microalbuminuria and T2DM-macroalbuminuria groups.
Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit) Outcome 2 Title: Grade of LVDD Description: Percentage of participants in each LVDD grade (grade I, II, III), graded according to the 2016 ASE/EACVI guidelines using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the four groups.
Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit) Outcome 3 Title: Frequency of pulmonary hypertension (PH) Description: Percentage of participants with echocardiographic pulmonary hypertension, defined per 2022 ESC/ERS criteria using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the four groups.
Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit).
Measured: At time of enrollment (single time-point cross-sectional assessment)
Secondary outcomes (1)
Correlation of Diastolic Dysfunction and PASP with Glycemic Control and Diabetes Duration
Correlation of diastolic dysfunction parameters and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) with HbA1c and diabetes duration within the diabetic subgroups, using Pearson or Spearman correlation as appropriate. Multivariable regression will be used to adjust for hypertension and other covariates influencing these associations across all four groups.
Measured: At time of enrollment (single time-point cross-sectional assessment)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 Sep 2026
- Study start5 Oct 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion5 Oct 2028 (estimated)
- Study completion5 Jun 2029 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Diabetes Mellitus Type 2Studies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Assiut UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Enrolment
- 120 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Assiut University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Shady Ashraf Kassem, Assiut University
- Investigators
- shady A Elsdfy, MD, Principal investigator, Assiut University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07839208
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 04-2026-100520
- Other IDs
- SCCREIRB-MEDICIASSIUT-GU-001-2
- Status last verified
- Sep 2026
- First submitted
- 17 Sep 2026
- Last updated
- 24 Sep 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 24 Sep 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus With Microalbuminuria in Upper Egypt
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07839208
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 04-2026-100520
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 120 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Assiut UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 5 Oct 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- 5 Oct 2028 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 5 Jun 2029 (estimated)
- First posted
- 24 Sep 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This is a cross-sectional observational study comparing echocardiographic markers of left ventricular diastolic function and pulmonary artery systolic pressure among healthy controls and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, stratified by albuminuria status (normal, microalbuminuria, macroalbuminuria) according to KDIGO 2024 criteria. The study is being conducted in Upper Egypt and aims to characterize the relationship between the albuminuria spectrum and cardiac diastolic/pulmonary vascular involvement in type 2 diabetes, alongside glycemic control and diabetes duration.
Detailed description
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with subclinical cardiac abnormalities that often precede overt heart failure. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is characterized early by impaired left ventricular relaxation and increased filling pressures, detectable echocardiographically as left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD), frequently before any drop in ejection fraction. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is increasingly recognized as a comorbid finding in diabetic populations, potentially arising secondary to diastolic dysfunction, microvascular disease, or both.
Albuminuria is a graded marker of generalized microvascular endothelial dysfunction in diabetes, classified by KDIGO 2024 criteria into normal-to-mildly-increased, moderately increased (microalbuminuria), and severely increased (macroalbuminuria) categories, corresponding to progressive cardiovascular and renal risk. While microalbuminuria in isolation has been linked to adverse cardiopulmonary outcomes, the relationship between the full albuminuria spectrum and echocardiographic indices of diastolic dysfunction and PH has not been well characterized, particularly against a non-diabetic control benchmark, in an Upper Egyptian population.
This protocol compares standard transthoracic echocardiographic markers of diastolic dysfunction and PH, alongside glycemic control (HbA1c) and diabetes duration, across four groups: healthy controls and T2DM patients with normal albuminuria, microalbuminuria, and macroalbuminuria.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Number of arms
- 4
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Group 1 | – | –Group/Cohort Label: Healthy Controls Description: Non-diabetic adults, age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups, confirmed by fasting glucose/HbA1c. |
| Group 2 | – | –Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Normoalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and normal urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (KDIGO A1, ACR <30 mg/g). |
| Group 3 | – | –Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Microalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and moderately increased albuminuria (KDIGO A2, ACR 30-300 mg/g). |
| Group 4 | – | –Group/Cohort Label: T2DM with Macroalbuminuria Description: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and severely increased albuminuria (KDIGO A3, ACR >300 mg/g). |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Patients recruited from Cardiology and Internal Medicine/Endocrinology outpatient clinics and inpatient wards at Assiut University Hospital, Upper Egypt, along with age- and sex-matched non-diabetic controls.
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Four groups will be recruited: (1) healthy, non-diabetic controls, age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups; (2) T2DM with normal albuminuria (KDIGO A1, urine ACR <30 mg/g); (3) T2DM with microalbuminuria (KDIGO A2, ACR 30-300 mg/g); (4) T2DM with macroalbuminuria (KDIGO A3, ACR >300 mg/g). Diabetic groups: adult patients (≥18 years) with an established diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Control group: adults (≥18 years) without diabetes (confirmed by fasting glucose/HbA1c), age- and sex-matched to the diabetic groups. All groups: willingness and ability to provide informed consent.
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Type 1 diabetes or secondary forms of diabetes; known primary valvular heart disease (moderate or greater); prior myocardial infarction or established coronary artery disease with regional wall motion abnormality; reduced ejection fraction (EF < 50%) on screening echocardiography; chronic kidney disease stage ≥4 or dialysis dependence; known chronic lung disease or other secondary causes of pulmonary hypertension unrelated to left heart disease; atrial fibrillation or other rhythm disturbance precluding reliable diastolic assessment; pregnancy. Note: systemic hypertension is not an exclusion criterion, given its high prevalence as a diabetes comorbidity; it will instead be recorded and analyzed as a covariate.
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Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension Across Albuminuria Groups
Time frame: At time of enrollment (single time-point cross-sectional assessment)
Title: Prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) Description: Percentage of participants with LVDD, defined by the 2016 ASE/EACVI algorithm using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the control, T2DM-normoalbuminuria, T2DM-microalbuminuria and T2DM-macroalbuminuria groups. Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit) Outcome 2 Title: Grade of LVDD Description: Percentage of participants in each LVDD grade (grade I, II, III), graded according to the 2016 ASE/EACVI guidelines using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the four groups. Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit) Outcome 3 Title: Frequency of pulmonary hypertension (PH) Description: Percentage of participants with echocardiographic pulmonary hypertension, defined per 2022 ESC/ERS criteria using transthoracic Doppler echocardiography, compared between the four groups. Time Frame: At enrollment (single study visit).
1 secondary outcome
Correlation of Diastolic Dysfunction and PASP with Glycemic Control and Diabetes Duration
Time frame: At time of enrollment (single time-point cross-sectional assessment)
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 24 Sep 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
shady A Elsdfy, MD principal investigator
Assiut University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, run by Assiut University at 1 site in Egypt.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Egypt. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact shady Elsdfy, MD (01028792280, elsdfyshady@gmail.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Diastolic Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension Across Albuminuria Groups (time frame: At time of enrollment (single time-point cross-sectional assessment)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 24 Sep 2026.