Is subclinical myocardial injury the smoking gun linking obesity with heart failure?

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Electronic address: james.delemos@utsouthwestern.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

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James A de Lemos et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2014 Dec.

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. 2014 Dec;2(6):608-10.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.06.009. Epub 2014 Oct 22.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Electronic address: james.delemos@utsouthwestern.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

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Keywords: cardiac injury; heart failure; obesity; troponin.

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Obesity, subclinical myocardial injury, and incident heart failure.
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