Obesity in patients with end-stage heart failure

Obesity poses an increasing problem in patients with end-stage heart failure (HF). The most commonly used indicator of obesity is body mass index. The value of this parameter is widely taken into consideration when selecting the best way of treatment for patients with advanced HF. The aim of this pa...

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Autores principales: Król, Bogumiła, Oprzędkiewicz, Aleksandra, Szczurek, Wioletta, Szyguła-Jurkiewicz, Bożena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2018
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Review Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30310396
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2018.78442
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description Obesity poses an increasing problem in patients with end-stage heart failure (HF). The most commonly used indicator of obesity is body mass index. The value of this parameter is widely taken into consideration when selecting the best way of treatment for patients with advanced HF. The aim of this paper is to outline the recent knowledge about obesity in the abovementioned group of patients.
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spelling pubmed-61800182018-10-11 Obesity in patients with end-stage heart failure Król, Bogumiła Oprzędkiewicz, Aleksandra Szczurek, Wioletta Szyguła-Jurkiewicz, Bożena Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Review Paper Obesity poses an increasing problem in patients with end-stage heart failure (HF). The most commonly used indicator of obesity is body mass index. The value of this parameter is widely taken into consideration when selecting the best way of treatment for patients with advanced HF. The aim of this paper is to outline the recent knowledge about obesity in the abovementioned group of patients. Termedia Publishing House 2018-09-24 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6180018/ /pubmed/30310396 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2018.78442 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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