What Causes Rapid Heart Beat In A Diabetic Patient?

Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2014

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Question : I am sitting, resting, watching TV and heart beat seems very accelerated. I am a type 2 diabetic.

Answered by Dr. Minal Mohit (1 hour later)

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,

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