Prevalence of obesity and its association with cardiometabolic risk factors, heart failure phenotype and mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure in Egypt.
Ahmed HassaninMahmoud HassaneinGregg M LanierMohamed SadakaMohamed RifaatMohamed SanhouryPublished in: The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology (2022)
Obesity was highly prevalent among the study cohort and was associated with higher prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors as compared to non-obese patients. Obesity was associated with an independent "protective effect" from in-hospital mortality but was not a predictor of mortality at 1-year follow-up.
Keyphrases
- risk factors
- heart failure
- weight loss
- obese patients
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- bariatric surgery
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- roux en y gastric bypass
- gastric bypass
- left ventricular
- atrial fibrillation
- adipose tissue
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- skeletal muscle
- body mass index
- acute heart failure