Contribution of Doppler echocardiography to the evaluation of systolic and diastolic function of obese women versus a control group

Contribution of Doppler echocardiography to the evaluation of systolic and diastolic function of obese women versus a control group

OBJECTIVE: To study by doppler echocardiography the cardiac systolic and diastolic functions of health, uncomplicated obese subjects. METHODS: Fifty-nine obese women with an average body mass index (BMI) of 35 kg/m² were evaluated and compared with 19 subjects with an average BMI of 23 kg/m² (contro...

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Main Authors: Nathan Herszkowicz, Alfonso Barbato, Waldir Salvi, Daniel Pinheiro, Denise Pantaleão, Alfredo Halpern, Giovani G. Cerri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2001-03-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Subjects:
obesity
echocardiography
cardiopathy
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2001000300002

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