Catalog

Heart muscle disease in nutritional diseases

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Link to WHO Definition

Heart muscle disease in nutritional diseases – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/2133197770

Cardiomyopathy due to nutritional diseases almost invariably result in a dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype, and are in the setting of a deficiency of an essential nutrient such as seen in selenium deficiency, thiamine deficiency, protein energy malnutrition (Kwashiorkor) and vitamin D deficiency.