- ►altervista.org [PDF] S Kenchaiah, JC Evans, D Levy, PWF Wilson … - The New England …, 2002 - nejm.highwire.org ABSTRACT Background Extreme obesity is recognized to be a risk factor for heart failure. It is
unclear whether over- weight and lesser degrees of obesity also pose a risk. Methods We investigated
the relation between the body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square ... Cited by 847 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
MS Lauer, KM Anderson, WB Kannel, D Levy - Jama, 1991 - Am Med Assoc OBJECTIVE.--To determine the relationship of varying degrees of obesity with left ventricular
mass and geometry. DESIGN.--Survey. SETTING.--Population-based epidemiologic study. PARTICIPANTS
AND METHODS.--M-mode echocardiograms, which were adequate for estimation of left ... Cited by 332 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►ahajournals.org P Poirier, TD Giles, GA Bray, Y Hong, JS Stern, FX Pi- … - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc Obesity is becoming a global epidemic in both children and adults. It is associated with numerous
comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain
cancers, and sleep apnea/sleep-disordered breathing. In fact, obesity is an independent ... Cited by 272 - Related articles - All 10 versions
- ►ahajournals.org [PDF] G De Simone, RB Devereux, MJ Roman, MH Alderman … - Hypertension, 1994 - Am Heart Assoc Abstract Although it is recognized that both hypertension and obesity are associated with increased
left ventricular mass, the relative impacts of obesity, arterial hypertension, and gender on the
prevalence of ventricular hypertrophy remain uncertain. Accordingly, echocardiographic ... Cited by 251 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►ahajournals.org PR Liebson, GA Grandits, S Dianzumba, RJ Prineas, … - Circulation, 1995 - Am Heart Assoc From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Preventive
Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Ill; the Division of Biostatistics
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- ►shouxi.net P Poirier, RH Eckel - Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 2002 - Springer It was recently stated by the Public Health Approaches to the Prevention of Obesity (PHAPO)
working group of the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) that "In every country in the world
today, depending on its stage of epidemiologic transition, chronic non-communicable ... Cited by 231 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
MA Alpert - The American journal of the medical sciences, 2001 - journals.lww.com Obesity produces an increase in total blood volume and cardiac output because of the high metabolic
activity of excessive fat. In moderate to severe cases of obesity, this may lead to left ventricular
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- ►onlinejacc.org MR Mehra, PA Uber, MH Park, RL Scott, HO … - Journal of the American …, 2004 - Elsevier A total of 318 patients with heart failure were evaluated between June 2001 and June 2002.
Levels of BNP were compared in obese (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m 2 ) and nonobese
(BMI <30 kg/m 2 ) patients with respect to New York Heart Association functional class ... Cited by 184 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►ahajournals.org [PDF] RE Schmieder, FH Messerli, GE Garavaglia, BD Nunez - Circulation, 1988 - Am Heart Assoc Roland E. Schmieder, MD, Franz H. Messerli, MD, Guillermo E. Garavaglia, MD, and Boris
D. Nunez, MD ... Because a given increase in afterload does not consistently produce the same
degree of left ... (r=0.64, p<0.001), relative wall thickness (r=0.67, p<0.001), and left ... Cited by 182 - Related articles - All 5 versions
