Extreme obesity and associated cardiovascular disease verified at autopsy: Time trends over 3 decades

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-377

  Kortelainen, Marja Leena ^a   Porvari, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

adipose tissue; cardiac hypertrophy; cardiomyopathy; coronary atherosclerosis; obesity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OBESITY, MORBID; ORGAN SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855185624     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e318219cd89     Document Type: Article

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