Central Obesity: Association with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Mortality in the Community

OBJECTIVES: We sought to measure the strength of association between two indices of obesity, waist hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI), with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and mortality in a community cohort. BACKGROUND: The distribution of body fat is thought to affect cardiovascular disea...

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Main Authors: Ammar, Khawaja Afzal, Redfield, Margaret M., Mahoney, Douglas W., Johnson, Matthew, Jacobsen, Steven J, Rodeheffer, Richard J.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277394/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061715
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2008.06.018
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