Since diabetic cardiomyopathy was first reported four decades ago, substantial information
on its pathogenesis and clinical features has accumulated. In the heart, diabetes enhances …

Patients with diabetes have an increased risk for development of cardiomyopathy, even in
the absence of well known risk factors like coronary artery disease and hypertension …

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), although a distinct clinical entity, is also a part of the
diabetic atherosclerosis process. It may be independent of the coexistence of ischemic heart …

Heart failure and related morbidity and mortality are increasing at an alarming rate, in large
part, because of increases in aging, obesity, and diabetes mellitus. The clinical outcomes …

Diabetes mellitus has reached an epidemic level worldwide. Cardiovascular diseases are
the primary cause of death in diabetic patients, not only because of coronary artery disease …

Although ischemic heart disease is the major cause of death in diabetic patients, diabetic
cardiomyopathy (DCM) is increasingly recognized as a clinically relevant entity. Considering …

Independent of the severity of coronary artery disease, diabetic patients have an increased
risk of developing heart failure. This clinical entity has been considered to be a distinct …

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is characterised in its early stages by diastolic relaxation
abnormalities and later by clinical heart failure in the absence of dyslipidaemia …

The relationship between diabetes and heart failure is complex and bidirectional.
Nevertheless, the existence of a cardiomyopathy attributable exclusively to diabetes has …

Diabetes is associated with increased incidence of heart failure even after controlling for
coronary artery disease and hypertension. Thus, as diabetic cardiomyopathy has become …