ndexes of left ventricular diaBtolic function were measured by Doppler echocardiography in50 non-insarlin-dependent diabetic patients without clinical evidence of heed disease.Thediabetic patients had depressed left ventricular diastolic function

and it was more signifi cantlydepressed in the diabetic pati ents with autonomic neuropathy than without diabetic autonomicneuropathy

especially altemations in sympathetic nervous system activity are associated withabnormalites of left ventrieular diastofic filling.