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Prevalence and determinants of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in obese subjects and the role of left ventricular global longitudinal strain and mass normalized to height.

Frank Lloyd DiniIacopo FabianiMario MiccoliGian Giacomo GaleottiNicola Riccardo PuglieseAndreina D'AgostinoAlessandra ScartabelliLorenzo ConteGuido SalvettiFerruccio SantiniRoberto Pedrinelli
Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
These results show that DD is highly prevalent among obese subjects and impairment of longitudinal systolic mechanics, as reflected by GLS reduction, and LV mass normalized to height are major independent predictors of DD in this patients' population.
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