The study was undertaken to examine central hemodynamic and carbohydrate metabolic parameters in patients with coronary heart disease (with or without signs of chronic heart failure, Stages I and IIA). The changes in carbohydrate metabolism in CHD patients were detected earlier than those in central hemodynamics. In patients with Stage I heart failure, who had normal resting hemodynamic parameters, metabolic parameters were indicative of abnormalities in carbohydrate metabolism: there was a reduction in carbohydrate tolerance and red blood cell release of insulin in response to glucose load and an increase in blood immunoreactive insulin, erythrocytic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and greater adrenalin- and insulin-containing erythrocytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study is presented of the central hemodynamics, renal function and water-salt metabolism in 42 patients with ischemic heart disease and chronic circulatory insufficiency (grades I and II) and revealed a deterioration of these indices in this categories of patients manifested in a retention of sodium, deterioration of central hemodynamics after increase of venous inflow.
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