Obesity has been found to be protective in heart failure (HF), a finding leading to the concept of an obesity paradox. We hypothesized that a preserved cardiorespiratory fitness in obese HF patients may affect the relationship between survival and body mass index (BMI) and explain the obesity paradox in HF.

Exercise tolerance can explain the obesity paradox in patients with systolic heart failure: data from the MECKI Score Research Group / Piepoli, Massimo F; Corrà, Ugo; Veglia, Fabrizio; Bonomi, Alice; Salvioni, Elisabetta; Cattadori, Gaia; Metra, Marco; Lombardi, Carlo; Sinagra, Gianfranco; Limongelli, Giuseppe; Raimondo, Rosa; Re, Federica; Magrì, Damiano; Belardinelli, Romualdo; Parati, Gianfranco; Minà, Chiara; Scardovi, Angela B; Guazzi, Marco; Cicoira, Mariantonietta; Scrutinio, Domenico; Di Lenarda, Andrea; Bussotti, Maurizio; Frigerio, Maria; Correale, Michele; Villani, Giovanni Quinto; Paolillo, Stefania; Passino, Claudio; Agostoni, Piergiuseppe. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. - ISSN 1388-9842. - 18:5(2016), pp. 545-553. [10.1002/ejhf.534]

Exercise tolerance can explain the obesity paradox in patients with systolic heart failure: data from the MECKI Score Research Group

Metra, Marco;
2016-01-01

Abstract

Obesity has been found to be protective in heart failure (HF), a finding leading to the concept of an obesity paradox. We hypothesized that a preserved cardiorespiratory fitness in obese HF patients may affect the relationship between survival and body mass index (BMI) and explain the obesity paradox in HF.
2016
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
Exercise tolerance
Heart failure
MECKI score
Matching analysis
Prognosis
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