Is increased body mass index associated with a cardioprotective effect after ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction?

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-98

  Iakobishvili, Zaza ^b   Danicek, Vladimir ^b   Porter, Avital ^b   Assali, Abid ^b   Battler, Alexander ^b   Hasdai, David ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Echocardiography; Infarct size; Myocardial infarction; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBESITY; TROPONIN I;

EID: 33745864839     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482940600768673     Document Type: Article

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