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Obesity and hypertensive heart disease: focus on body composition and sex differences

There is evidence that hypertension is frequently associated with overweight/obesity even in kids and adolescents. Either conditions influence development of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH), through different biological and hemodynamic mechanisms: obesity is conventionally thought to elicit...

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Autores principales: de Simone, Giovanni, Mancusi, Costantino, Izzo, Raffaele, Losi, Maria Angela, Aldo Ferrara, L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13098-016-0193-x