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Racial Differences and Temporal Obesity Trends in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Melissa C CaugheyMuthiah VaduganathanSameer AroraArman QamarRobert J MentzPatricia P ChangClyde W YancyStuart D RussellSanjiv J ShahWayne D RosamondAmbarish Pandey
Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2021)
Black patients were disproportionately burdened by obesity in this decade-long community surveillance of older hospitalized patients with HFpEF. However, temporal increases in mean BMI and class III obesity prevalence among white patients narrowed the racial difference in recent years. For both races, the worst survival was observed with class III obesity. Effective strategies are needed to manage obesity in patients with HFpEF.
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