Stress echocardiography in patients with morbid obesity

Stress echocardiography in patients with morbid obesity

The incidence of significant obesity is rising across the globe. These patients often have a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and are frequently referred for noninvasive cardiac imaging tests. Stress echocardiography (SE) is widely used for assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), but its clinical utility in morbidly obese patients (in whom image qu...

Effect of laparoscopic sleeve gasterectomy on the quality of life in patients with morbid obesity

Background: During the recent years, much attention has been paid to sleeve gastrectomy (SG). However, it is important to know whether SG really improves the patients' quality of life (QoL). So far, no study has been conducted in Iranian society in this regard. Thus, in the current study, the effects of SG on QoL in Iranian patients with morbid obesity was investigated. Materials and method...

Comparison of roux-en-y gastric bypass techniques with and without distal gastric plication in patients with morbid obesity

Accelerated lung aging in patients with morbid obesity.

OBJECTIVE To determine the lung age of patients with morbid obesity and to compare it with the chronological age of these patients, emphasizing the premature damage that morbid obesity does to the lungs. METHODS An open, prospective cross-sectional study comprising 112 individuals: 78 patients with morbid obesity (study group); and 34 non-obese individuals with normal pulmonary function resul...

Resistin levels and inflammatory markers in patients with morbid obesity.

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship of resistin levels with inflammatory markers and anthropometric parameters in morbid obese patients. SUBJECTS A population of 46 morbid obese was analyzed. A complete nutritional and biochemical evaluation was performed. Patients were divided in two groups by median resistin value (3.49 ng/ml), group I (low values, averag...