Severe Obesity and Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: New Insights Into Prevalence and Prognosis

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Martin A Alpert. JACC Heart Fail. 2016 Dec.

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. 2016 Dec;4(12):932-934.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.10.008.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri. Electronic address: alpertm@health.missouri.edu.

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Keywords: acute decompensated heart failure; obesity; prognosis; severe obesity.

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