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Stiff Heart - diastolic heart failure

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Mar 3 10:16am | Replies (214)

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Is glucose intolerance a problem for you as well, @imhart? I'm also wondering if there is a history of this type of health problem in your family?

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Not really. I'm just below the cut off for glucose intolerance, apparently. All that Dr. Redfield was trying to do was to say if I am glucose intolerant then she hopes that a provider would give me the SGLUT2 type med because it is showing promise for heart failure. There's a big study going on now and she believes it will probably be utilized just for heart failure patients in the future. It's currently only approved for diabetes.

There is a history of congestive heart failure on one side of the family, but they only got this in their late 70s not early 50s like me. I would like to connect with others on this forum who have been given a diagnosis of this at a relatively young age and caused by autoimmune connective tissue disease. Though I must say my local Rheumatologist did not know how my Mayo Clinic team would know that MCTD caused the heart stiffening. So, I am trying to find out as much as I can in order to know if that's the case and the experience of others in a similar place.