Open AccessThe Obesity Paradox and Discrepancy Between Peak Oxygen Consumption and Heart Failure Prognosis—It's All in the Fat
Author(s) -
Artham Surya M.,
Lavie Carl J.,
Milani Richard V.,
Ventura Hector O.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
congestive heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-7133
pISSN - 1527-5299
DOI - 10.1111/j.1527-5299.2007.06248.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , obesity paradox , obesity , cardiology , listing (finance) , heart transplantation , overweight , finance , economics
The authors present the case of an obese patient with advanced heart failure that demonstrates the paradox between obesity and heart failure prognosis. In addition, the authors discuss the rationale for the correction of cardiopulmonary stress data (used as predictors of survival and listing for cardiac transplantation) for lean weight (as opposed to total body weight), a consideration that may be particularly important in obese patients with a high percentage of body fat.