Chronic heart failure with diabetes mellitus is characterized by a severe skeletal muscle pathology

• Main Authors: Jack O. Garnham (Author), Lee D. Roberts (Author), Ever Espino‐Gonzalez (Author), Anna Whitehead (Author), Peter P. Swoboda (Author), Aaron Koshy (Author), John Gierula (Author), Maria F. Paton (Author), Richard M. Cubbon (Author), Mark T. Kearney (Author), Stuart Egginton (Author), T. Scott Bowen (Author), Klaus K. Witte (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Patients with coexistent chronic heart failure (CHF) and diabetes mellitus (DM) demonstrate greater exercise limitation and worse prognosis compared with CHF patients without DM, even when corrected for cardiac dysfunction. Understanding the origins of symptoms in this subgroup m...