The Obesity Paradox in Heart Failure: Is it All About Fitness, Fat, or Sex?

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 927-930

  Lavie, Carl J ^a   Ventura, Hector O ^a  

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

Author keywords

fitness; heart failure; obesity; sex

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FITNESS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; OBESITY;

BODY MASS INDEX; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 85001831601     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.07.009     Document Type: Editorial

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