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 PedrinelliPublished 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.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- ejection fraction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- body mass index
- aortic stenosis
- end stage renal disease
- adipose tissue
- weight loss
- acute myocardial infarction
- blood pressure
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- mitral valve
- left atrial
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- risk factors
- atrial fibrillation
- oxidative stress
- physical activity
- patient reported outcomes
- acute coronary syndrome