Lack of association between obesity and left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-132

  Movahed, Mohammad Reza ^a,c   Saito, Yuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index (BMI); CHF; Congestive heart failure; Diastolic function; EF; Fractional shortening (FS); Left ventricular function; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649124975     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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