Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases [1-3]. Obesity also represents an independent risk factor for congestive heart failure [4,5]. The haemodynamic hallmarks of obesity, increased heart rate and stroke volume, are thought to be a compensatory adaptation to increased adipose tissue mass at the expense of left ventricular remodelling, which can later progress to heart failur...

UNLABELLED Obesity continues to be an epidemic worldwide. There also continues to be a relationship between obesity and hypertension both causal and consequentially. The study aims at determining the prevalence and pattern of overweight and obesity among our patients being managed for essential hypertension. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was a cross sectional study. Consecutive patients diag...

Background: Obesity and overweight are important public health problems which are rapidly growing throughout the world. This study aims to provide 10-year incidence estimates of obesity and overweight in adults along with their risk factors in an Iranian adult population. Methods: This cohort study was conducted within the framework of the Yazd Healthy Heart Project (YHHP) throughout phases fro...

Obesity is becoming a global epidemic in both children and adults, and it is associated with numerous co-morbidities such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain cancers, and sleep apnea/sleep-disordered breathing. In fact, is an independent risk factor for CVD and CVD risks have been also documented in obese children, and is associated with reduced life expecta...

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is a common disorder with growing awareness. We sought to evaluate if the presence of obesity in patients with SAS is associated with a high risk for development of coronary-vascular comorbidities. METHODS We performed a retrospective study that included 1370 patients (30.3% female and 69.7% male) diagnosed with SAS from May 2005 to May 2012. The...

Obesity is a long established risk factor for cardiovascular diseases including heart failure. However, recent evidence suggests that obese patients with failure report more favorable outcomes than normal weights. This paper presents, reviews, and discusses some of the currently available describing association between obesity failure, especially as obesity-heart paradox. Pathophysiological dat...

BACKGROUND Obesity has been associated with improved short-term mortality following common acute illness, but its relationship with longer-term mortality is unknown. METHODS Observational study of U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants with federal health insurance (fee-for-service Medicare) coverage, hospitalized with congestive heart failure (N = 4287), pneumonia (N = 4182), or...

The authors estimated the generalized impact fraction (GIF) for heart failure (HF) related to obesity, representing the proportion of incident HF events that could be prevented from reductions in obesity and/or overweight. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study is a biracial population-based cohort study of persons aged 45-64 years from 4 US communities with a median 14 years of follow-u...