Waist-to-height ratio for the obesity paradox in heart failure: is it a matter of fitness?

Gen-Min Lin^{1

2}, Kun-Zhe Tsai³, Carl J Lavie⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, No. 100, Jinfeng St., Hualien City 970, Taiwan.
² Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan.
³ Department of Stomatology of Periodontology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan.
⁴ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA.

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Gen-Min Lin et al. Eur Heart J. 2023.

. 2023 Sep 14;44(35):3386-3387.

doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad503.

Gen-Min Lin^{1

2}, Kun-Zhe Tsai³, Carl J Lavie⁴

¹ Department of Medicine, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, No. 100, Jinfeng St., Hualien City 970, Taiwan.
² Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan.
³ Department of Stomatology of Periodontology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan.
⁴ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA.

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Anthropometric measures and adverse outcomes in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: revisiting the obesity paradox.
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