What is the prevalence and predominant phenotype of left-ventricular hypertrophy in the obese population?
Obesity is associated with a consistent presence of LVH, predominantly eccentric, highlighting the importance of obesity management to prevent incident heart failure.
Our analysis shows that LVH is present in a consistent fraction of the obese population and that eccentric hypertrophy prevails over the concentric phenotype. As obesity-related LVH is a powerful risk factor for systolic/diastolic dysfunction, the prevention/treatment of obesity may have a strong, favourable impact on incident heart failure.
Cuspidi et al. (2013) studied this question.