Key result
Diabetes is linked to substantially higher lifetime heart failure risk and structural cardiac changes.
Why the study?
The existence of a diabetes-specific cardiomyopathy remains debated and unresolved despite evidence of increased CHF risk and cardiac structural changes in diabetes.
Population
Patients with diabetes
Design
Review
Authors
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“In light of an abundance of substrate supply in the blood and impaired contractile function of the myocardium, it is appropriate to ask the question, 'Why does the heart fail in the midst of plenty?'”
This review highlights the increased lifetime risk of heart failure and structural cardiac changes associated with diabetes, supporting the concept of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
This review highlights the increased lifetime risk of heart failure and structural cardiac changes associated with diabetes, supporting the concept of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Taegtmeyer et al. (2002) conducted a review in Diabetes and congestive heart failure. Diabetes was evaluated. Diabetes is associated with a substantially increased lifetime risk of congestive heart failure and changes in cardiac structure attributable to the diabetic milieu.
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