The impact of obesity on the short-term and long-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention: The obesity paradox?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 578-584

  Gruberg, Luis ^a   Weissman, Neil J ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a   Fuchs, Shmuel ^a   Deible, Regina ^a   Pinnow, Ellen E ^a   Ahmed, Lanja M ^b   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Suddath, William O ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Lindsay Jr, Joseph ^b  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037138577     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01802-2     Document Type: Article

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