Association between obesity and infarct size: Insight into the obesity paradox

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 604-606

  Cepeda Valery, Beatriz ^a   Slipczuk, Leandro ^a   Figueredo, Vincent M ^a,d   Pressman, Gregg S ^a,d   Morris, D Lynn ^a,d   Lavie, Carl J ^b,c   Romero Corral, Abel ^a  

^a EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHN OCHSNER HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Myocardial infarction; NSTEMI; Obesity paradox; STEMI; Troponin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBESITY; PERICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84879112093     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.09.230     Document Type: Article

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