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The impact of diabetes mellitus on the clinical phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
19 Sept 2018
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Diabetes mellitus (DM) aggravates the clinical features of ischaemic and hypertensive heart diseases and worsens the prognosis of heart failure patients. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and diabetes coexist fairly frequently in elderly patients but the impact of DM on the clinical phenotype of HCM is yet unknown. We sought to describe if predominant features of heart failure in DM patients exist...
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