Cardiac Remodeling in Obesity. Time for a New Paradigm

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 275-277

  Litwin, Sheldon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac magnetic resonance; epidemiology; left ventricular hypertrophy; myocardial contractility; obesity; remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

BODY MASS; CARDIAC MEGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

BODY MASS INDEX; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 77649244667     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.12.004     Document Type: Editorial

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