title: Congestive heart failure in the diabetic.
abstract: Heart failure seems to occur in adult-onset diabetics with a greater frequency than in the nondiabetic population, particularly in women. A number of such patients do not have significant occlusive disease of the major coronary arteries, or convincing small-vessel disease. A subclinical abnormality of myocardium in experimental diabetes and asymptomatic human diabetics supports the concept of a diabetic cardiomyopathy.
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000209:etiology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans