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Reverse epidemiology of conventional cardiovascular risk factors in patients with chronic heart failure

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH^*, Gladys Block, PhD, Tamara Horwich, MD and Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC^,*

^* Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA
University of California, Berkley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, USA
Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Risk-adjusted survival curves for the four body mass index (BMI) categories at five years. Survival was significantly better for the overweight and obese BMI categories. (From Horwich et al. [5], with permission.)

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Five-year rates of death or urgent heart transplantation by deciles of total cholesterol. (From Horwich et al. [5], with permission.)