Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Left Main Disease: The Obesity Paradox

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 618-624

  Shirzad, Mahmood ^a   Karimi, Abbasali ^a   Dowlatshahi, Samaneh ^a   Ahmadi, Seyed Hossein ^a   Davoodi, Saeed ^a   Marzban, Mehrab ^a   Movahedi, Namvar ^a   Abbasi, Kyomars ^a   Fathollahi, Mahmood Sheikh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Angiography; Body mass index; Coronary artery bypass graft; Coronary artery disease; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71749113110     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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