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The presence of obesity paradox in Greek patients with chronic heart failure

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of body mass index (BMI) values on 1- and 2-year mortality rates in patients with chronic heart failure (HF). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 112 patients with confirmed HF who visited the HF outpatient unit of a tertiary hospital...

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Autores principales: Vlaras, Efstratios, Giakoumidakis, Konstantinos, Fotos, Nikolaos V, Chatziefstratiou, Anastasia A, Brokalaki, Hero
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033626
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/POR.S145683