Cardiac morphology and left ventricular function in normotensive morbidly obese patients with and without congestive heart failure, and effect of weight loss

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 736-740

  Alpert, Martin A ^a   Terry, Boyd E ^b   Mulekar, Madhuri ^b   Cohen, Michael V ^b   Massey, Clara V ^b   Fan, T Michael ^b   Panayiotou, Hercules ^b   Mukerji, Vaskar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0031572160     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00505-5     Document Type: Article

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