Recent progress on diabetic cardiomyopathy

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a serious complication of diabetes which is aften accompanied with cardiac dysfunction. Studies show that energy metabolic disorders, abnormal function and increased apoptosis of myocardial cells are associated with diabetes. Some cytokines and inflammation factors which contribute to myocar-dial fibrosis are abnormal expressed in diabetic myocardium. The results above i…