ArticleAmerican journal of cardiovascular disease2019
Testing the obesity paradox in patients on long-term milrinone infusion for end-stage heart failure.
Article in American journal of cardiovascular disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Isolated left ventricular assist device implantation produces variable changes to patient body mass index.Artificial organs · 2022Article
- Implications of obesity across the heart failure continuum.Progress in cardiovascular diseasesReview
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Abstract
backgroundObese patients with chronic HF have a lower mortality than do non-obese patients with heart failure (HF) i.e. "obesity paradox". We sought to determine the relationship between obesity (defined by body-mass index; BMI) and survival in inotrope-dependent patients with Stage D HF. METHODS AND
resultsWe screened the medical records of adults with ACC/AHA stage D HF who were admitted to our institution between January, 2010 and July, 2018 who were both initiated and discharged on continuous intravenous milrinone. Patients were divided into three groups: non-obese patients (Nob-BMI < 30 kg/m
conclusionIn this retrospective study of stage D inotrope-dependent HF patients, there was trend of an "obesity paradox" with higher survival in the Ob1 group patients compared to NOb and Ob2/3 patients. Ob2/3 patients had the worst survival.
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