Evidence for Cardiomyopathy in Familial Diabetes Mellitus

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Abstract

Recent epidemiologic studies have suggested that cardiac disease in common in diabetics and may often have a noncoronary basis. To examine the status of the left ventricle, 17 adult-onset diabetics of familial type without hypertension or obesity underwent hemodynamic study and were compared to 9 controls of similar age.

Authors

Timothy J. Regan, Michael M. Lyons, S. Sultan Ahmed, Gilbert E. Levinson, Henry A. Oldewurtel, Mehmood R. Ahmad, Bunyad Haider