Pre-existing type 2 diabetes is associated with increased all-cause death independently of echocardiographic predictors of poor prognosis only in ischemic heart disease
It is unknown whether the prognostic role of diabetes (T2DM) in outpatients with chronic heart failure (CHF) is independent of the most important echocardiographic markers of poor prognosis. The aims of this analysis were to evaluate whether T2DM modifies the risk of mortality in CHF patients stratified by etiology of disease or by right-ventricular to pulmonary arterial coupling at echocardiography and to evaluate how T2DM interacts with the prognostic role of cardiac plasma biomarkers.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - Category: Nutrition Authors: Stefano Ghio, Catherine Klersy, Erberto Carluccio, Angela Beatrice Scardovi, Laura Scelsi, Calogero Falletta, Andrea Rossi, Pompilio Faggiano, Egidio Traversi, Olga Vriz, Marco Guazzi, Frank Lloyd Dini, Giovanni Targher, Pier Luigi Temporelli Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research
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