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HOT TOPICS IN CARDIOLOGY: Issue 2, 2006
Cardiovascular complications of obesity and weight loss: pathogenesis and clinical recognition
Cardiovascular complications of obesity and weight loss: pathogenesis and clinical recognition
Paul Poirier
Correspondence to:
Paul Poirier - MD, PhD, FRCPC Professeur-adjoint Faculté de pharmacie Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie Hôpital Laval Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada E-mail: paul.poirier@cthl.ulaval.ca
Summary
- "AT RISK" OBESITY
- CARDIOVASCULAR ADAPTATION OF OBESITY
- ADAPTATION OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM IN OBESITY
- Adipose tissue circulation
- Hemodynamic repercussions of obesity
- Effects on ventricular function
- Cardiomyopathy of obesity (adipositas cordis)
- Cardiac evaluation in animal models of obesity
- FREQUENTLY PERFORMED PROCEDURES IN CARDIOLOGY: ASSESSMENT OF OBESE INDIVIDUALS
- History and physical examination
- Radiology
- The electrocardiogram
- Echocardiography
- OBESITY AND ASSOCIATED COMORBIDITIES
- Hypertension
- Sleep Apnea
- Stroke
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Pathogenesis
- Assessment of coronary artery disease with imaging techniques
- Coronary artery disease revascularization procedure in obesity
- Congestive heart failure
- Arrhythmias
- BENEFITS AND RISKS OF WEIGHT LOSS
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
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