Bulking Up Skeletal Muscle to Improve Heart Failure Prognosis

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 274-276

  Lavie, Carl J ^a   Forman, Daniel E ^b   Arena, Ross ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

arm circumference; heart failure; obesity paradox; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84966571072     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.12.005     Document Type: Editorial

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