… isolated obesity and its duration on cardiac function by using routine echocardiography and
tissue Doppler … enrolled in this study; 29 with isolated obesity defined as a body mass index …

… 2-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography, pulsed wave Doppler tissue imaging at …
of the heart in isolated obesity; in particular, the authors, with the use of conventional Doppler …

… In the multivariate analysis, the impairment of the average left ventricle circumferential strain
was the strongest parameter correlated with isolated obesity, whereas contrary to our results …

… 6 Tissue Doppler imaging may therefore provide unique insights into the effects of obesity on
… systolic and diastolic function using tissue Doppler imaging in patients with severe obesity. …

… Furthermore, because these data were mainly derived from studies performed in otherwise
healthy subjects with isolated obesity, the limitations of this evidence must be recognized. …

… DI and MPI data indicated impaired subclinical LV function in all grades of isolated obesity
at a preclinical stage. Insulin resistance and BMI correlated significantly with indices of LV …

… obese, but otherwise healthy, young adults by conventional echocardiography and tissue
Doppler … CONCLUSION: Our study showed that isolated obesity in young normotensive adults …

… Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) Tissue Doppler imaging was used to measure myocardial
tissue velocities. These velocities were obtained with the transducer in the apical four- and two-…

… Our aim in this study was to determine the direct effect of different grades of isolated obesity
… Pulsed Doppler measurements were obtained in the apical four chamber view: the Doppler …

… .7, 8 In all patients with isolated obesity, a subclinical left ventricular … Doppler echocardiography
in obese patients, and as a result of this, a decrease in E/A ratio was observed in obese …