Impact of Body Mass Index on Heart Failure by Race/Ethnicity From the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure (GWTG–HF) Registry

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 233-242

  Powell Wiley, Tiffany M ^a   Ngwa, Julius ^b   Kebede, Selomie ^b   Lu, Di ^c   Schulte, Phillip J ^d   Bhatt, Deepak L ^e   Yancy, Clyde ^f   Fonarow, Gregg C ^g   Albert, Michelle A ^h  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnicity; GWTG Heart Failure; heart failure; mortality; obesity; race

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; REGISTER; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85042480643     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2017.11.011     Document Type: Article

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