Does bariatric surgery improve cardiac structure and function in morbidly obese subjects?
Bariatric surgery provides significant cardioprotective effects by improving cardiac structure and function, including regression of LV hypertrophy and improved diastolic function, in morbidly obese patients.
The present meta-analysis, the largest to date focusing on cardiac structural and functional changes in morbidly obese subjects after bariatric surgery, documents that this therapeutic approach exerts important cardioprotective effects in terms of regression of LV hypertrophy, improvement of LV geometry and diastolic function, and reduction of left atrial size.
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