Obesity and pulmonary hypertension: a review of pathophysiologic mechanisms

SE Friedman, BW Andrus - Journal of Obesity, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
obesity and its comorbidities to pulmonary hypertension. … of pulmonary hypertension in
the obese. However, patients with obesity may have any of the recognized forms of pulmonary

Obesity and pulmonary hypertension

K Ayinapudi, T Singh, A Motwani, TH Le Jemtel… - Current hypertension …, 2018 - Springer
hypertension over the next decades is unclear. We review the obesity-related
mechanisms that may further the development and progression of pulmonary hypertension. …

Obesity in pulmonary arterial hypertension. the pulmonary hypertension association registry

J Min, R Feng, D Badesch… - Annals of the …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
… with obesity with PAH had worse pulmonary hypertension–specific HRQoL. The impairment
in pulmonary hypertension–… Overweight patients and those with obesity had a trend toward …

Obesity, systemic hypertension, and pulmonary hypertension: a tale of three diseases

A Wahab, AK Dey, D Bandyopadhyay… - Current Problems in …, 2021 - Elsevier
… and CVD – with the relationship between markers of obesity and … and pulmonary hypertension
in the context of obesity. … and pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the context of obesity and …

[HTML][HTML] The association between obesity, mortality and filling pressures in pulmonary hypertension patients; the “obesity paradox”

B Zafrir, Y Adir, W Shehadeh, M Shteinberg… - Respiratory …, 2013 - Elsevier
… term “obesity paradox”, refers to lower mortality rates in obese … clinical implication of obesity
and pulmonary hypertension (PH). … possible prognostic implications of obesity in PH patients. …

Obesity is associated with pulmonary hypertension and modifies outcomes

RC Frank, J Min, M Abdelghany… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… a link between obesity and pulmonary hypertension (PH), yet clinical studies have been
limited. This study sought to determine the association of obesity and pulmonary hemodynamic …

Pulmonary hypertension and obesity: focus on adiponectin

F Perrotta, E Nigro, M Mollica, A Costigliola… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… In chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)… increase in pulmonary arterial
pressure, with pulmonary vessel … obesity with the different forms of pulmonary hypertension, …

Association between BMI and obesity with survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension

J Weatherald, A Huertas, A Boucly, C Guignabert… - Chest, 2018 - Elsevier
Background An obesity paradox, wherein patients who are obese have lower mortality, has
been described in cardiopulmonary diseases, including pulmonary arterial hypertension (…

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary hypertension in obesity-hypoventilation syndrome

CA Kauppert, I Dvorak, F Kollert, F Heinemann… - Respiratory …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is considered a clinically important feature of Obesity-Hypoventilation
Syndrome (OHS). We aimed to determine prevalence, characteristics and severity of …

Risk factors associated with pulmonary hypertension in obesity hypoventilation syndrome

JF Masa, ID Benítez, S Javaheri… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - jcsm.aasm.org
… Similar to our study, they defined pulmonary hypertension as echocardiographic evidence
of pulmonary artery systolic pressure of ≥ 40 mm Hg. BMI was positively associated with …