Healthy Weight and Obesity Prevention: JACC Health Promotion Series

CJ Lavie, D Laddu, R Arena, FB Ortega… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Overweight and obesity have reached epidemic levels in the United States and worldwide,
and this has contributed to substantial cardiovascular and other health risks. However …

Obesity and cardiovascular disease

FB Ortega, CJ Lavie, SN Blair - Circulation research, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
The prevalence of obesity has increased worldwide over the past few decades. In 2013, the
prevalence of obesity exceeded the 50% of the adult population in some countries from …

Current diagnostic and treatment strategies for specific dilated cardiomyopathies: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

B Bozkurt, M Colvin, J Cook, LT Cooper, A Deswal… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
The first classification on this topic categorized cardiomyopathies as heart muscle diseases
with dilated (DCM), hypertrophic, restrictive, arrhythmogenic right ventricular (ARVC), or …

Obesity and atrial fibrillation prevalence, pathogenesis, and prognosis: effects of weight loss and exercise

CJ Lavie, A Pandey, DH Lau, MA Alpert… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Both obesity and atrial fibrillation (AF) are increasing in epidemic proportions, and both
increase the prevalence of cardiovascular disease events. Obesity has adverse effects on …

Obesity and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and prognosis—the obesity paradox updated

CJ Lavie, A De Schutter, P Parto, E Jahangir… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The prevalence and severity of obesity have increased in the United States and most of the
Westernized World over recent decades, reaching worldwide epidemics. Since obesity …

Diabetes-associated cardiac fibrosis: cellular effectors, molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

I Russo, NG Frangogiannis - Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are associated with cardiac fibrosis that may reduce
myocardial compliance, contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure, and trigger …

Obesity and cardiovascular diseases: implications regarding fitness, fatness, and severity in the obesity paradox

CJ Lavie, PA McAuley, TS Church, RV Milani… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
Obesity has been increasing in epidemic proportions, with a disproportionately higher
increase in morbid or class III obesity, and obesity adversely affects cardiovascular (CV) …

Body mass index, the most widely used but also widely criticized index: would a criterion standard measure of total body fat be a better predictor of cardiovascular …

FB Ortega, X Sui, CJ Lavie, SN Blair - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives To examine whether an accurate measure (using a criterion standard method) of
total body fat would be a better predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality than …

Effects of obesity on cardiovascular hemodynamics, cardiac morphology, and ventricular function

MA Alpert, J Omran, BP Bostick - Current obesity reports, 2016 - Springer
Obesity produces a variety of hemodynamic alterations that may cause changes in cardiac
morphology which predispose to left and right ventricular dysfunction. Various …

Obesity and heart failure: focus on the obesity paradox

S Carbone, CJ Lavie, R Arena - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2017 - Elsevier
The escalating prevalence of obesity has been linked to substantial increases in both
metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, the direct effects of obesity on …