IGF1 and ischemic disease: To evaluate the effect of CMP on IGF-1 myocardial expression, these cases were further divided in 6 groups: (1) 10 healthy non-alcoholic donors, (2) 8 hypertensive non-alcoholic donors without CMP, (3) 8 hypertensive non-alcoholic donors with CMP, (4) 11 donors with chronic alcohol consumption without CMP, (5) 12 donors with chronic alcohol consumption with CMP and (6) 7 non-alcoholic donors with other causes of CMP (2 ischemic disease, 3 valve disease and 2 idiopathic CMP).