An obesity paradox in acute heart failure: Analysis of body mass index and inhospital mortality for 108 927 patients in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry

American Heart Journal

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-81

  Fonarow, Gregg C ^a   Srikanthan, Preethi ^a   Costanzo, Maria Rosa ^b   Cintron, Guillermo B ^c   Lopatin, Margarita ^d  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Midwest Heart Specialists   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d SCIOS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; SODIUM;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; REGISTRIES; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845348932     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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