Is there an obesity, overweight, or lean paradox in coronary heart disease? Getting to the'fat' of the matter

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 596-598

  Lavie, Carl J ^a,b   De Schutter, Alban ^a,c   Milani, Richard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FAT FREE MASS; FITNESS; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 84876129935     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303487     Document Type: Editorial

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