621B Case study - Patient with Diabetes full case study 2023
- Diabetes is the number one risk factor of CHF. With hyperglycemia in diabetes in causes vasoconstriction and hypertension that lead to ischemia. The heart has to work harder to pump of blood. With the heart's overload it become thicker and stiffer and overtime it loses its contractility causing reduce cardiac output. This leads to CHF. Hyperglycemia also leads to atherosclerosis. This further results in many hearts disease including CHF.
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