Disparate effects of metabolically healthy obesity in coronary heart disease and heart failure

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¹ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Carl J Lavie et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Mar 25;63(11):1079-81.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.080. Epub 2013 Dec 15.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Keywords: cardiovascular disease; coronary heart disease; fitness; heart failure; obesity.

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Risk of myocardial infarction and heart failure among metabolically healthy but obese individuals: HUNT (Nord-Trøndelag Health Study), Norway.
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