Obesity and heart failure: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management

Translational Research

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 345-356

  Alpert, Martin A ^a   Lavie, Carl J ^b   Agrawal, Harsh ^a   Aggarwal, Kul B ^a   Kumar, Senthil A ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

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

Author keywords

BMI = body mass index; CAD = coronary artery disease; CBV = central blood volume; CO = cardiac output; CV = cardiovascular; HF = heart failure; HTN = hypertension; LV = left ventricular or left ventricle; LVEDP = left ventricular end diastolic pressure; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction; LVH = left ventricular hypertrophy; QTc = corrected QT interval; RAAS = renin angiotensin aldosterone system; RV = right ventricular or right ventricle; SV = stroke volume; SVR = systemic vascular resistance; WHO = World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LEPTIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; THIOCTIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY MASS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAWNY EDEMA; CACHEXIA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MORPHOLOGY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHEYNE STOKES BREATHING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CRACKLE; CYANOSIS; DISORIENTATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FAT MASS; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART SOUND; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART WORK; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OBESITY CARDIOMYOPATHY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PAPILLEDEMA; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; QT INTERVAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SOMNOLENCE; SPECKLE TRACK IMAGING; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS CONGESTION; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; MORTALITY; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84908043972     PISSN: 19315244     EISSN: 18781810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2014.04.010     Document Type: Review

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