Effects of obesity and weight changes on cardiac and vascular structure and function: does the clinical impact carry any weight?

Carl J Lavie, Richard V Milani, Hector O Ventura

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Article in JACC. Heart failure, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Body roundness index as a predictor of 3-month readmission in elderly patients with first-episode acute heart failure.Frontiers in medicine · 2026
Article
Visceral adiposity index (VAI), a powerful predictor of incident hypertension in prehypertensives.Internal and emergency medicine · 2018
Observational
Comparison of the Combined Obesity Indices to Predict Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors and Metabolic Syndrome in Northeast China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
Article
Preclinical Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunctions in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obese Individuals.Circulation. Heart failure · 2015
Article
Recent publications by ochsner authors.Ochsner journal · 2014
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Carl J LavieDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.

Richard V MilaniDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hector O VenturaDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ventricular Function, LeftVentricular RemodelingAgingFemaleHeart VentriclesHumansMaleObesityObesity, AbdominalUltrasonographyVascular StiffnessVentricular Dysfunction, LeftfitnessLV functionobesityweight loss

Identifiers

PMID25194284

DOI10.1016/j.jchf.2014.04.007

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