Simple obesity with cardiomyopathy of obesity

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 876-879

  Itoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Michiya ^a   Tanimoto, Noriyasu ^a   Okabayashi, Tomoaki ^a   Arii, Kaoru ^a   Nakauchi, Yuh ^a   Takamatsu, Kazunaga ^a   Suehiro, Tadashi ^a   Hashimoto, Kozo ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Left ventricle; Sleep apnea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIET THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW CALORY DIET; OBESITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SODIUM RESTRICTION;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DIET, REDUCING; DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; OBESITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 0030277403     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.876     Document Type: Article

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