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Overweight and obesity impair left ventricular systolic function as measured by left ventricular ejection fraction and global longitudinal strain

AIMS: Obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and heart failure but it is unclear to which extent it is related to left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The aim of the study was to explore the effects of overweight and obesity on left ventricular...

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Autores principales: Blomstrand, Peter, Sjöblom, Peter, Nilsson, Mats, Wijkman, Magnus, Engvall, Martin, Länne, Toste, Nyström, Fredrik H., Östgren, Carl Johan, Engvall, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30107798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12933-018-0756-2