Body Mass Index, Muscle Mass, and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: The Obesity Paradox Revisited.
In Chang HwangHong Mi ChoiYeonyee Elizabeth YoonJin Joo ParkJun Bean ParkJae-Hyeong ParkSeung-Pyo LeeHyung Kwan KimYong Jin KimGoo Yeong ChoPublished in: International journal of heart failure (2022)
A lower BMI is associated with a higher risk of mortality in patients with AHF. This obesity paradox is observed in AHF regardless of comorbidities and HF phenotype.