Association of obesity with heart failure outcomes in 11 Asian regions: A cohort study.

Association of obesity with heart failure outcomes in 11 Asian regions: A cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Asians are predisposed to a lean heart failure (HF) phenotype. Data on the 'obesity paradox', reported in Western populations, are scarce in Asia and have only utilised the traditional classification of body mass index (BMI). We aimed to investigate the association between obesi...

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Main Authors: Chanchal Chandramouli, Wan Ting Tay, Nurul Sahiddah Bamadhaj, Jasper Tromp, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Jonathan J L Yap, Michael R MacDonald, Chung-Lieh Hung, Koen Streng, Ajay Naik, Gurpreet Singh Wander, Jitendra Sawhney, Lieng Hsi Ling, A Mark Richards, Inder Anand, Adriaan A Voors, Carolyn S P Lam, ASIAN-HF Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002916

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002916

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