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Body weight in midlife and long-term risk of developing heart failure-a 35-year follow-up of the primary prevention study in Gothenburg, Sweden

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine whether midlife obesity predicts heart failure (HF) over an extended follow-up into old age. METHODS: We studied 7495 men (from a population sample of 9,998 men) without HF, who were 47–55 years old when investigated in 1970 to 1973. All participants were fo...

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Autores principales: Björck, Lena, Novak, Masuma, Schaufelberger, Maria, Giang, Kok Wai, Rosengren, Annika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-015-0008-2