Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Editorial
Nonischaemic heart failure and diabetes mellitus
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ, 1 Gloucester Court, 08816 East Brunswick, USA
E-mail address: shindler@umdnj.edu
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This editorial refers to "Impact of diabetes mellitus on long-term survival in patients with congestive heart failure"1 by de Groote et al. on page 656.
Knowledge about the impact of diabetes mellitus on prognosis in patients with heart failure continues to grow. As reported in this issue, de Groote et al.1 used coronary angiography to stratify diabetics with systolic heart failure into ischaemic and nonischaemic aetiologies. The hypothesis tested was that diabetic status may be used as a prognostic indicator in heart failure patients. The study also sought to analyse the impact of diabetes on survival according to the
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