Why the study?
Does isolated obesity affect echocardiographic indices of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in otherwise healthy women?
Population
73 women with no other pathological conditions, including 48 obese and 25 normal weight.
Comparison
Isolated obesity vs Normal weight
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Obesity was associated with subclinical diastolic dysfunction in healthy women; hypothesis-generating and requires longitudinal confirmation.
Does isolated obesity affect echocardiographic indices of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in otherwise healthy women?
Isolated obesity in otherwise healthy women is associated with subclinical left ventricular diastolic dysfunction that correlates with BMI severity.
M Pascual (2003) studied this question.
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