Does being underweight worsen midterm prognosis in Japanese patients undergoing TAVR for aortic stenosis?
Underweight patients undergoing TAVR have a worse midterm prognosis, highlighting an obesity paradox in this population.
Underweight patients had a worse midterm prognosis, demonstrating the obesity paradox in this TAVR population. (Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Japanese patients with aortic stenosis: multi-center registry; UMIN000031133).
Tezuka et al. (Tue,) studied this question.