The Diabetic Heart: Too Sweet for Its Own Good?
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Cardiology Research and Practice
- Vol. 2012, 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/845698
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for ischemic heart disease (IHD). Patients with diabetes and IHD experience worse clinical outcomes, suggesting that the diabetic heart may be more susceptible to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). In contrast, the animal data suggests that the diabetic heart may be either more, equally, or even less susceptible to IRI. The conflicting animal data may be due to the choice of diabetic and/or IRI animal model. Ischemic conditioning, a phenomenon in which the heart is protected against IRI by one or more brief nonlethal periods of ischemia and reperfusion, may provide a novel cardioprotective strategy for the diabetic heart. Whether the diabetic heart is amenable to ischemic conditioning remains to be determined using relevant animal models of IRI and/or diabetes. In this paper, we review the limitations of the current experimental models used to investigate IRI and cardioprotection in the diabetic heart.Keywords
Funding Information
- British Heart Foundation (RG/03/007, FS/10/039/28270)
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