What to Know About Heart Failure When You Have Diabetes

In June of 2022, a report from the American Diabetes Association highlighted heart failure as “an underappreciated complication of diabetes.” According to that report, up to 22% of people with diabetes will develop heart failure, and the incidence of heart failure within the diabetes community is increasing. “Heart failure is the most prevalent cardiovascular complication in people with diabetes,” says Dr. Rodica Pop-Busui, a professor of diabetes at the University of Michigan and president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association. “In the U.S. alone there are 37 million people diagnosed with diabetes, and heart failure in this population is a very serious health care problem that needs to be addressed before it reaches more advanced and more costly stages.”  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] For a time, it was thought that heart failure might mainly affect people with Type 2 diabetes. But the latest research suggests that people with Type 1 diabetes are also at risk. “When you look at all people with diabetes, either Type 1 or Type 2, the incidence of heart failure is four times higher than it is in the general population,” says Dr. Amgad Makaryus, a professor of cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. The term “heart failure” refers to problems with the heart muscle’s ability to pump blood. These problems c...
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