Diabetes is a major public health problem which is expected to
affect 160 million people worldwide by the year 2000. Clearly an
understanding of the effects of diabetes on the heart is an
important step in the development of strategies to reduce the
incidence of heart disease for diabetic patients, thus increasing
their overall life-expectancy and quality of life. In this book,
the editors bring together the different lines of evidence
supportive of the idea of a diabetic cardiomyopathy. The first
chapter provides an overview of the impact of cardiac dysfunction
on the mortality and morbidity of the diabetic population in
general, as well as a presentation of clinical aspects of heart
disease in diabetes. This is followed by chapters concerned with
the pathological and functional changes that occur in the heart as
a result of diabetes and a description of the various therapeutic
interventions that are available to reverse the effects of diabetes
on the heart. Subsequent chapters focus on changes in protein
synthesis, membrane function and intermediary metabolism that take
place following the onset of diabetes. Since these alterations
precede many of the functional and pathological changes, it may be
that the processes responsible for the functional decline and
tissue injury are initiated by diabetes-induced changes at the
cellular and/or biochemical level.
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