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
DOIAbstract
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
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