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Impact of obesity on cardiac geometry and function in a population of adolescents: the Strong Heart Study.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 6 Jun 2006
Chinali Marcello, de Simone Giovanni, Roman Mary J, Lee Elisa T, Best Lyle G, Howard Barbara V, Devereux Richard B
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OBJECTIVES: The goal here was to examine left ventricular (LV) geometry and function in a large, unselected group of adolescents with different degrees of abnormal body build, and verify whether possibly higher LV mass is compensatory for increased cardiac workload. BACKGROUND: There is little information on how much the excess of body weight impacts LV geometry and function in populations of adolescents....
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