Heart Attack and Diabetes info please

[Vonny]

Can anyone tell me why a person with diabetes who is having a heart attack may not present with the classic crushing chest pain.

I can not find an explanation as to why a diabetic patient would have a silent heart attack.
Thanks for your help on this.

 

[VentMedic]

Great source of info:
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/

Several articles with just a quick search:
multiple articles from the journal
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cg...dial+ischemia&pubdate_year=&volume=&firstpage=

Diabetic Neuropathies
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/4/956

Predictive Value of Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy in Diabetic Patients With or Without Silent Myocardial Ischemia

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/2/339

Assessment of cardiac sympathetic denervation and its relation to autonomic dysfunction and silent myocardial ischemia

http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=9ad27fd00e430ceaee990e31117ea0df

Silent myocardial ischemia: role of subclinical neuropathy in patients with and without diabetes

http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/1433

 

[Vonny]

Thanks Ventmedic ^_^
I will delve into these sites.