This review highlights the obesity paradox in PCI patients, where obese individuals exhibit better outcomes, and discusses potential mechanisms and demographic disparities.
Obesity paradox in PCI warrants clinical caution; leaves open mechanisms and race/sex disparities for prospective validation.
There is strong relationship exist between obesity and cardiovascular disease including coronary artery disease (CAD). However, better outcomes noted in obese patients undergoing percutaneous cardiovascular interventions for CAD, a phenomenon known as the obesity paradox. In this review, we performed extensive search for obesity paradox in obese patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and discussed possible mechanism and disparities in different race and sex.
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