Predictive power of different obesity measures for the presence of diastolic dysfunction

• Main Authors: Yalın Tolga Yaylalı (Author), Güzin Fidan-yaylalı (Author), Beray Can (Author), Hande Şenol (Author), Mehmet Kılınç (Author), Mustafa Yurtdaş (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) as measures of obesity have some limitations. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether one measure could predict the presence of diastolic dysfunction (DD) more accurately than the other measures. Methods: A total of 91 obese patient...