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Exercise Tolerance can Explain the Obesity Paradox in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure: Data from the MECKI Score Research Group

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2016

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Massimo Piepoli, Ugo Corrà, Fabrizio Veglia, Alice Bonomi, Elisabetta Salvioni, Gaia Cattadori, Marco Metra, Carlo Lombardi, Gianfranco Sinagra, Giuseppe Limongelli,
European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract

Exercise tolerance affects the relationship between BMI and survival. Cardiorespiratory fitness mitigates the obesity paradox observed in HF patients.

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