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Overweight and Its Association With Aortic Pressure Wave Reflection After Exercise
Author(s) -
Chi Young Shim,
Wookyeom Yang,
Sungha Park,
MinKyung Kang,
YoungGuk Ko,
Donghoon Choi,
Yangsoo Jang,
Nakia Chung,
JongWon Ha
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1941-7225
pISSN - 0895-7061
DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2011.121
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , cardiology , blood pressure , association (psychology) , aortic pressure , obesity , philosophy , epistemology
Obesity is associated with arterial stiffening, left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, and diastolic dysfunction. However, there is no data regarding dynamic changes in arterial hemodynamics with exercise in overweight subjects. We hypothesized that overweight women would show a different exercise response in wave reflection compared with lean women.

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