Sarcopenic Obesity Is Associated With Reduced Cardiorespiratory Fitness Compared With Nonsarcopenic Obesity in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.
Hayley E BillingsleyMarco Giuseppe Del BuonoJustin M CanadaYoungdeok KimJuan Ignacio DamonteCory R TrankleGeza HalaszVirginia MihalickAlessandra VecchièRoshanak R MarkleyDinesh KadariyaEdoardo BressiHoracio Medina de ChazalJuan Guido ChiabrandoJames MbualunguJeremy TurlingtonRoss ArenaBenjamin W Van TassellAntonio AbbateSalvatore CarbonePublished in: Circulation. Heart failure (2022)
In patients with HFrEF and obesity, sarcopenia, defined as low SMMI, is associated with a clinically significant reduction in CRF, independent of adiposity.