SUBCLINICAL LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN OBESE ADOLESCENTS WITH AND WITHOUT METABOLIC SYNDROME

Authors :: Katherine French
David M. Harrild
Siddique Abbasi
Ravi V. Shah
Philip Haines
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71:A1654
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2018.
Abstract: Obesity is associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and heart failure. We investigated the role of metabolic syndrome as an additive risk for LV systolic dysfunction among adolescents. Fourteen obese adolescents (n=5 with metabolic syndrome, OMS+, and n=9 without metabolic syndrome, OMS-)

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Heart failure
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Medicine
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
medicine.disease
Obesity
Subclinical infection

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