Impact of Obesity on the Prevalence and Prognosis of Heart Failure-It Is Not Always Just Black and White

J Card Fail. 2016 Aug;22(8):598-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2016.06.003. Epub 2016 Jun 16.

Authors

Carl J Lavie¹, Hector O Ventura²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

PMID: 27317842
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2016.06.003

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Black or African American*
Female
Heart Failure / ethnology*
Heart Failure / etiology
Humans
Male
Obesity / complications*
Obesity / ethnology
Prevalence
Prognosis
Survival Rate / trends
United States / epidemiology
White People*