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Can diabetes cause a rapid heart rate?
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No.: Diabetics do not have any higher heart rate than any one else except under some very advanced disease such as autonomic neuropathy or in some acute conditions such as dehydration.
Answered 11/6/2012
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Yes: Muliple mechanisms 1. Most common is poor control, relative dehydration 2. Occasionally damage to autonomic nervous system causes loss of parasympathetic modulation of heart beat and fast heart beat 3. Coronary heart disease yieldind intrinsic heart abnormalities.
Answered 5/16/2014
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