Effects of obesity and weight changes on cardiac and vascular structure and function: does the clinical impact carry any weight?

JACC Heart Fail. 2014 Oct;2(5):509-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.04.007. Epub 2014 Sep 3.
No abstract available

Keywords: LV function; fitness; obesity; weight loss.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Aging / physiology*
  • Female
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Obesity / epidemiology*
  • Obesity, Abdominal / physiopathology*
  • Ultrasonography
  • Vascular Stiffness / physiology*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / epidemiology*
  • Ventricular Function, Left*
  • Ventricular Remodeling*