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Prognosis of a malignant phenotype of obesity defined by a cardiac biomarker in hypertension: the Japan Morning Surge-Home Blood Pressure study.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Feb 2024
Watanabe Hiroaki, Hoshide Satoshi, Kanegae Hisoshi, Kario Kazuomi
Abstract excerpt
Obesity with increased high-sensitive cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) has been reported to be more likely to progress cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, which suggests that hs-cTnT may identify a "malignant" phenotype of obesity. We classified 3513 hypertensive patients from the Japan Morning Surge-Home Blood Pressure (J-HOP) study into groups based on body mass index (BMI) (normal weight: <25 kg/m2, overweight:...
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