to find out if ventricular dysfunction is related with diabetes duration or diabetic chronic complications , resting and exercise electrocardiograms , chest x-ray , echocardiograms and dynamic scintigraphy with left ventricular ejection fraction measurement ( lvef ) were performed to three groups of diabetic subjects without known cardiopathy or hypertension : ( i ) twelve subjects with less than five-years diabetes , ( ii ) eleven with five to ten years , ( iii ) nineteen with diabetes lasting more than ten years .
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ventricular dysfunction
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cardiopathy