Letter by Lin et al Regarding Article, 'Risk of Stroke in Chronic Heart Failure Patients Without Atrial Fibrillation: Analysis of the Controlled Rosuvastatin in Multinational Trial Heart Failure (CORONA) and the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell’Insufficienza Cardiaca-Heart Failure (GISSI-HF) Trials.'

We read with interest the work by Abdul-Rahim et al,1 which reported that body mass index is inversely associated with incident ischemic stroke in chronic heart failure (HF) patients without atrial fibrillation (AF). The authors reasoned their finding by the obesity paradox phenomenon which has been well recognized in HF patients in previous studies.2 However, to our best knowledge, the obesity paradox was mainly described for mortality in …