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When do you recommend screening patients with T2DM for heart failure?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Heart failure is increasingly being recognized as a complication of diabetes. Heart failure is classified in 4 stages. Stage A is “at risk” because of diabetes, stage B is asymptomatic for the patient but with detectable cardiac abnormalities and then stage C and D are symptomatic stages...
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Answer from: at Community Practice
Screening patients with T2DM for heart failure is recommended at the time of diagnosis. This recommendation is based on the increased risk of HF in this population, even in the absence of symptoms.
The American Diabetes Association guidelines recommend that screening for asymptomatic heart failure ...