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Does overweight or obese status correlate with better echocardiographic cardiac function and functional class in stable outpatients with heart failure?
Cross-Sectional
No
Does overweight or obese status correlate with better echocardiographic cardiac function and functional class in stable outpatients with heart failure?
Overweight and obese Nigerian patients with heart failure present with less severe disease by echocardiographic and functional parameters compared to normal-weight patients, supporting the existence of an obesity paradox in this population.
Does not support altering weight targets in HF; extends obesity paradox to Nigerian outpatients but remains hypothesis-generating.
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Oyedeji et al. (2012) conducted a cross-sectional in heart failure. Overweight/obese (BMI > 25.0 kg/m2) vs. Normal weight (BMI = 18.5-24.9 kg/m2) was evaluated on Echocardiographic variables of cardiac function and NYHA functional class.
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