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Obesity is known to strongly influence the risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Left atrial (LA) dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an important mediator of cardiovascular disease. We quantified… Click to show full abstract
Obesity is known to strongly influence the risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Left atrial (LA) dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an important mediator of cardiovascular disease. We quantified LA strain via speckle tracking echocardiography among 1531 middle-aged subjects from
Keywords:
effect obesity;
strain middle;
obesity left;
atrial strain;
obesity;
left atrial
Journal Title: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Year Published: 2018
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