The Relationship between Measures of Obesity and Incident Heart Failure: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the strength of association of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with incident heart failure (HF), exploring our associations by ethnicity and age. DESIGN AND METHODS: We included 6,809 participants, aged 45–84 years, without clinical cardiovascular disease (2...

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Autores principales: Ebong, Imo A., Goff, David C., Rodriguez, Carlos J., Chen, Haiying, Bluemke, David A., Szklo, Moyses, Bertoni, Alain G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23441088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20298

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23441088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20298

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