Abdominal obesity, and not general obesity, is associated with a lower 123I MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratio in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction.

Akihiro SunagaShungo HikosoTakahisa YamadaYoshio YasumuraMasaaki UematsuHaruhiko AbeYusuke NakagawaYoshiharu HiguchiHisakazu FujiToshiaki ManoHiroyuki KurakamiTomomi YamadaTetsuhisa KitamuraTaiki SatoBolrathanak OeunHirota KidaTakayuki KojimaYohei SotomiTomoharu DohiKatsuki OkadaShinichiro SunaHiroya MizunoDaisaku NakataniYasushi Sakatanull null

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)

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Keyphrases

ejection fraction
heart failure
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
weight loss
aortic stenosis
type diabetes
high fat diet induced
weight gain
atrial fibrillation
left ventricular
skeletal muscle
aortic valve