Gender-specific differences in left ventricular remodelling in obesity: insights from cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.
AIMS: As obesity-related cardiovascular mortality, although elevated when compared with normal weight, is lower in females than in males at every body mass index (BMI) level, we aimed to investigate gender-specific differences in left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in obesity, which themselves have be...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2013
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