… heart failure and preserved left ventricular systolic function suffer from ?diastolic heart failure … -
L Caruana, MC Petrie, AP Davie, JJV McMurray - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... in the absence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction, valvular heart disease,
or atrial ... 23% to 41%) were obese, and five (5%;1% to 9%) were extremely obese. ...

Obesity Cardiomyopathy:: Pathophysiology and Evolution of the Clinical Syndrome. -
MA Alpert - The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2001 - amjmedsci.com
... disease, usually hypertension or coronary artery disease. ... attributed most of the
excessive heart weight to ... mortem findings in 12 extremely obese subjects, 3 of ...

[PDF] Obesity in the new millennium -
JM Friedman - Nature, 2000 - mcdb.colorado.edu
... is associated with an increased risk of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and ...
In3?5% of extremely obese individuals, mutations in an MSH receptor (MC4R ...
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Years of Life Lost Due to Obesity -
KR Fontaine, DT Redden, C Wang, AO Westfall, DB … - JAMA, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... we've made in areas such as heart disease, several forms ... These weighted estimates
were extremely similar to the ... they differed, the HRs for obesity were higher ...

Prevalence of the insulin resistance syndrome in obesity. -
RM Viner, TY Segal, E Lichtarowicz-Krynska, P … - Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2005 - pt.wkhealth.com
... alone, either fasting or during an OGTT, is likely to have extremely low yield and ...
Relationship of childhood obesity to coronary heart disease risk factors ...

[PDF] THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT OF OBESITY -
TLS Visscher, JC Seidell - Annual Review of Public Health, 2001 - learn.sdstate.edu
... overweight and approximately 20% is extremely overweight, or ... become more affluent
and obesity is seen ... Costs for survivors of heart disease are enormous because ...
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Mechanisms of Obesity-Associated Cardiovascular and Renal Disease. -
JE Hall, ED Crook, DW Jones, MR Wofford, PM … - The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2002 - amjmedsci.com
... against cardiovascular and renal disease, however, remains ... to raise arterial pressure
and heart rate in ... ob/ob mouse, for example, is extremely obese because it ...

Obesity and Coronary Heart Disease. -
JK Alexander - The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2001 - amjmedsci.com
... BMI and CHD 11; in the Charleston Heart study neither ... itself has little impact on
the coronary disease process ... 50 and one third of extremely obese subjects are ...

Obesity: assessment and management in primary care -
JM Lyznicki, DC Young, JA Riggs, RM Davis - Am Fam Physician, 2001 - newcms.aafp.org
... Obesity class III, > 40, Extremely high, Extremely high. ... insulin-dependent diabetes),
hypertension and cardiovascular disease. ... of Health, National Heart, Lung, and ...
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Prevalence of fatty liver in Japanese children and relationship to obesity -
K Tominaga, JH Kurata, YK Chen, E Fujimoto, S … - Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1995 - Springer
... prognosis of obesity in adults is extremely poor, and a ... In the Bogalusa Heart Study,
Freedman et al ... Many obese children have abnormalities of glucose tolerance ...