The prevalence of heart failure is on the rise and imposes a major health threat, in part, due
to the rapidly increased prevalence of overweight and obesity. To this point …

Obesity is a chronic multisystem disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
The increasing prevalence of obesity makes it a major healthcare challenge across both …

Importance Excess aldosterone production contributes to hypertension in both classical
hyperaldosteronism and obesity-associated hypertension. Therapies that reduce …

Two billion people worldwide older than 18 years of age, or approximately 30% of the world
population, are overweight or obese. In addition, more than 43 million children under the …

Epicardial adipose tissue has unique properties that distinguish it from other depots of
visceral fat. Rather than having distinct boundaries, the epicardium shares an unobstructed …

Aims We evaluated the impact of echocardiographic epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) on
cardiovascular haemodynamics, metabolic profile and prognosis in heart failure (HF) using …

Background The principal biological processes that characterize heart failure with a
preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) are systemic inflammation, epicardial adipose tissue …

Obesity continues to be a public health problem in the general population, and also
significantly increases the risk for the development of new-onset heart failure (HF). However …

Randomized clinical trials initially used heart failure (HF) patients with low left ventricular
ejection fraction (LVEF) to select study populations with high risk to enhance statistical …

Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome that usually develops in the elderly. Complex
interactions of the cardiovascular aging process with risk factors (obesity, hypertension, and …