Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Mar 2013
Multicenter StudyImpact of cardiorespiratory fitness on the obesity paradox in patients with heart failure.
To determine the impact of cardiorespiratory fitness (FIT) on survival in relation to the obesity paradox in patients with systolic heart failure (HF). ⋯ These results indicate that FIT modifies the relationship between BMI and survival. Thus, assessing the obesity paradox in systolic HF may be misleading unless FIT is considered.