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 …

Hypertensive heart disease is a constellation of abnormalities that includes left ventricular
hypertrophy (LVH), systolic and diastolic dysfunction, and their clinical manifestations …

Background: Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a heterogeneous
syndrome. Phenotyping patients into pathophysiologically homogeneous groups may …

Obese and diabetic individuals are at increased risk for impairments in diastolic relaxation
and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The impairments in diastolic relaxation are …

The dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity and its strong association with
cardiovascular disease have resulted in unprecedented interest in understanding the effects …

Background To date there has been no comprehensive review of the association between
left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) at baseline and subsequent adverse clinical events …

OBJECTIVES.: We sought to determine whether growth influences the relation between left
ventricular mass and body size and whether use of different body size indexes affects the …

Background—Obesity is associated with heart failure, but an effect of weight, independent of
comorbidities, on cardiac structure and function is not well established. We sought whether …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the independent effect of increased
body size on left ventricular (LV) diastolic function. Background: Obese and overweight …

Background—Right ventricular (RV) morphology is an important predictor of outcomes in
heart and lung disease; however, determinants of RV anatomy have not been well studied …