Diabetics can also benefit with CRT

Uta C. Hoppe, MD, Department of Medicine III, University of Cologne, Germany said,"From previous CARE-HF data, we already knew that CRT improves survival in heart failure patients. With these new data, we now have proof that CRT is beneficial in heart failure patients with different co-morbidities, including those at risk of sudden cardiac death and patients with diabetes."

Previous studies had shown that CRT had brought down the risk of death due to heart failure by almost 45% and sudden cardiac death by 53%. Further studies showed that the benefits could be extended to patients with diabetes as well, as it brought down the mortality rate by almost 39%.



Source: Medindia
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