Cardiac autonomic neuropathy: Risk factors, diagnosis and treatment
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Cardiac autonomic neuropathy: Risk factors, diagnosis and treatment
Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) that is strongly associated with approximately five-fold increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. CAN manifests in a spectrum of things, ranging from resting tachycardia and fixed heart rate (HR) to development of "silent" myocardial infarction. Clinical correlates or risk markers for CAN are age, DM durat...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Diabetes
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1948-9358
DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v9.i1.1