Background: From clinical experience, obese pulmonary arterial hypertension patients tend to have higher cardiac output (CO) and may even be hyperdynamic, despite severely impaired right ventricular function. In this study the influence of obesity on CO, clinical parameters and survival in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was investigated.
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