High percent body fat mass predicts lower risk of cardiac events in patients with heart failure: an explanation of the obesity paradox

BACKGROUND: Although high body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor of heart failure (HF), HF patients with a higher BMI had a lower mortality rate than that in HF patients with normal or lower BMI, a phenomenon that has been termed the “obesity paradox”. However, the relationship between body composit...

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Autores principales: Ohori, Katsuhiko, Yano, Toshiyuki, Katano, Satoshi, Kouzu, Hidemichi, Honma, Suguru, Shimomura, Kanako, Inoue, Takuya, Takamura, Yuhei, Nagaoka, Ryohei, Koyama, Masayuki, Nagano, Nobutaka, Fujito, Takefumi, Nishikawa, Ryo, Ishigo, Tomoyuki, Watanabe, Ayako, Hashimoto, Akiyoshi, Miura, Tetsuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7789382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01950-9

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