Young Women With Abdominal Obesity Have Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1195-1201

  Share, Bianca L ^a   La Gerche, André ^a,b   Naughton, Geraldine A ^a,c   Obert, Philippe ^a,d   Kemp, Justin G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MITRAL VALVE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART DISEASES; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940788276     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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