The HFpEF Obesity Phenotype: The Elephant in the Room

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¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Section on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: dkitzman@wakehealth.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

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Dalane W Kitzman et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016.

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. 2016 Jul 12;68(2):200-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.05.019.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Section on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: dkitzman@wakehealth.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

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Keywords: New York Heart Association; adipose; exercise intolerance; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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