Diabetes and heart failure (HF)
are closely related and often coexist. According to the Framingham Heart Study,
the risk of HF was increased 2.4-fold in men and fivefold in women with
diabetes. In another study of 10,000 patients, HF
was more frequent in diabetic patients; 11.8% versus 4.5% in non-diabetic
patients.
The HF is a complex syndrome
resulting from functional and structural disorders that affect the capacity of
the heart to fill or eject blood. Complications associated with Type 2 diabetes
such obesity, lifestyle and hypertension are well known to contribute to the
cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients. HF accounts for 33% of diabetic
hospitalizations.
Evidence from clinical, experimental,
and epidemiological studies has shown that diabetes mellitus causes cardiac
dysfunction independently of hypertension, coronary artery disease or any other
cardiac diseases, known as diabetic cardiomyopathy.
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