Diabetic cardiomyopathy

This article focuses on advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Patients with diabetes are at an elevated risk for heart failure, and comorbid heart failure confers an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a distinctive syndrome that also confers high risk. Every effort should be made to diagnose patients with diabetic cardiomyopathy and to apply proven lifesaving therapies in all heart failure patients, including those with diabetes, in the absence of contraindications or intolerance.