Waist circumference but not body mass index predicts long-term mortality in elderly subjects with chronic heart failure

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1433-1440

  Testa, Gianluca ^a,b   Cacciatore, Francesco ^c   Galizia, Gianluigi ^a,c   Della Morte, David ^a,d   Mazzella, Francesca ^a,c   Langellotto, Assunta ^a   Russo, Salvatore ^a   Gargiulo, Gaetano ^a   De Santis, Domenico ^a,b   Ferrara, Nicola ^c   Rengo, Franco ^a,c   Abete, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; chronic heart failure; mortality; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77955262332     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02979.x     Document Type: Article

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