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Alterations in left ventricular structure and function in young healthy obese women

Assessment by echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging

Linda R. Peterson, MD, FACC^*,*, Alan D. Waggoner, MHS, RDCS^*, Kenneth B. Schechtman, PhD, Timothy Meyer, MS, Robert J. Gropler, MD, FACC^||, Benico Barzilai, MD, FACC^* and Víctor G. Dávila-Román, MD, FACC^*

^* Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Imaging and Clinical Research Core Laboratory, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cardiovascular Division; Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Division of Biostatistics, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Department of Physical Therapy, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
^|| Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 (A) The relationship between septal wall thickness (cm) at end-diastole and body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2). (B) The relationship between relative wall thickness (RWT) and BMI (kg/m2).

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 (A) The relationship between systolic myocardial velocity (Sm global) (cm/s) and body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2). (B) The relationship between early diastolic myocardial velocity (Em global) (cm/s) and BMI (kg/m2).