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2. Gated-SPECT Functional Assessment in Overweight and Obese Patients

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Lilian G Delgado-Espejel, Adriana C Puente-Barragán, and Julieta D Morales-Portano

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medicine.medical_specialty, Ejection fraction, business.industry, Gated SPECT, Retrospective cohort study, Overweight, Bioinformatics, medicine.disease, Obesity, Internal medicine, medicine, Cardiology, In patient, Analysis of variance, medicine.symptom, business, Ventricular remodeling
Abstract

Introduction: Obesity could be implicated in the modification of myocardial structure and function. Mexico has a 70% prevalence of overweight/obesity; therefore, we suggest assessing these changes with a non-invasive technique as the Gated-SPECT. Methods: This is retrospective observational study. Gated-SPECT assessment was conducted in patients suggesting ischemic heart. Multiple regression analysis was used for predicting the value of age, sex, BMI, DM and hypertension for functional parameters. T-test was used to compare DM groups and one-way ANOVA to compare BMI groups. Results: The model statistically significantly predict BMI and smoking to contribute to the prediction of LVEF, p

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2015
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