Impact of obesity on quality of life and depression in patients with heart failure

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 750-755

  Evangelista, Lorraine S ^a   Moser, Debra K ^b   Westlake, Cheryl ^c   Hamilton, Michele A ^d   Fonarow, Gregg C ^d   Dracup, Kathleen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Health related quality of life; Heart failure; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; WELLBEING;

BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33750986527     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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