The prognostic impact of general and abdominal obesity in peripheral arterial disease

Autor:	Gregorio Brevetti, Rossella Luciano, Linda Brevetti, Massimo Chiariello, Giuseppe Giugliano, Eugenio Laurenzano
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Male medicine.medical_specialty Waist Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Medicine (miscellaneous) Body Mass Index Risk Factors Internal medicine medicine Humans Obesity Prospective Studies Risk factor Abdominal obesity Proportional Hazards Models Peripheral Vascular Diseases Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Proportional hazards model Confounding Hazard ratio Middle Aged Prognosis Intermittent claudication Surgery Cardiovascular Diseases Obesity Abdominal Cardiology Female medicine.symptom Waist Circumference business Body mass index
Zdroj:	International journal of obesity (2005). 34(2)
ISSN:	1476-5497
Popis:	Obesity is an independent cardiovascular risk factor, but its prognostic role in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is not well defined. Accordingly, we assessed the impact of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) on cardiovascular risk in a homogeneous cohort of PAD patients. BMI and WC were measured in 190 consecutive PAD patients with ABI
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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