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Concomitant diabetes mellitus and heart failure.
Current problems in cardiology - 1 Jan 2015
Dei Cas Alessandra, Fonarow Gregg C, Gheorghiade Mihai, Butler Javed
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of patients with concomitant diabetes mellitus (DM) and heart failure (HF) is growing exponentially. Patients with HF and DM show specific metabolic, neurohormonal, and structural heart abnormalities, which potentially contribute to worse HF outcomes than seen in patients without comorbid DM. Subgroup analysis of recent trials suggest that patients with HF and DM may respond differently to standard...
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