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What Causes Rapid Heart Beat In A Diabetic Patient?
Question: I am sitting, resting, watching TV and heart beat seems very accelerated. I am a type 2 diabetic.
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thanks for your query.
At 53 y, with diabetes, accelerated heart rate can have many causes. can you please tell me a few things.
1. are you hypertensive?
2. what medicines you are presently taking?
3. how is your sugar control?
4. how often have you experienced this accelerated heart rate?
what I am trying to tell you sur, it can be normal event due to a particular TV program or it can have underlying cause like high blood pressure , uncontrolled diabetes, rhythm problems of heart etc. so if things repeat you need hba1c, BP monitoring, TSH, FT4, ECG, Echo and probably then we can solve the problem.
Regards,
Need more details.
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Thanks for your query.
At 53 y, with diabetes, accelerated heart rate can have many causes. can you please tell me a few things.
1. are you hypertensive?
2. what medicines you are presently taking?
3. how is your sugar control?
4. how often have you experienced this accelerated heart rate?
what I am trying to tell you sur, it can be normal event due to a particular TV program or it can have underlying cause like high blood pressure , uncontrolled diabetes, rhythm problems of heart etc. so if things repeat you need hba1c, BP monitoring, TSH, FT4, ECG, Echo and probably then we can solve the problem.
Regards,
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