WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE IS A STRONG PREDICTOR OF REGIONAL LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN ASYMPTOMATIC DIABETIC PATIENTS: THE FACTOR- 64 STUDY

Authors :: Boaz D. Rosen
Joao A.C. Lima
Jeffrey G. Anderson
Ravi K. Sharma
Yitzhak Rosen
Kenneth D. Horton
Donald L Lappe
J. Muhlestein
Heidi May
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 67:1609
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2016.
Abstract: Obesity is major health problem. Abdominal obesity is associated with the metabolic syndrome, coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure (HF). It is unclear if abdominal obesity is associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction independently of hypertension (HTN), CAD and weight among

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Waist
business.industry
medicine.disease
Circumference
Obesity
Asymptomatic
Surgery
Coronary artery disease
Heart failure
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
medicine.symptom
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Abdominal obesity

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