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January 1, 2004European Heart JournalOpen Access

Overweight and obesity in patients with established coronary heart disease: Are we meeting the challenge?

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Population

5535 patients with established coronary heart disease from 15 European centres participating in the…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

DBDirk De BacquerPreventive Cardiology

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Implication

Obesity linked to worse BP control on therapy in CHD; supports targeted research but should not yet change practice.

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Population
5535 patients with established coronary heart disease (recent cardiac event before age 71) from 15 European centres participating in the EUROASPIRE II study (1999-2000)
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Outcome
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and therapeutic control of manageable coronary risk factors in relation to body mass index

A large proportion of patients with established coronary heart disease are overweight or obese, which is associated with poorer control of cardiovascular risk factors like blood pressure and cholesterol.

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Dirk De Bacquer (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8016026d609e1b8ec85ccbhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehj.2003.10.024
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