Sarcopenic Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: An Overlooked but High-Risk Syndrome

S Mirzai, S Carbone, JA Batsis, SB Kritchevsky… - Current Obesity …, 2024 - Springer
Adopting uniform diagnostic criteria for SO will enable more accurate characterization of
prevalence and cardiometabolic risk moving forward. Although current management …

[HTML][HTML] Low muscle mass by preprocedural computed tomography is associated with worse short-term outcomes in transcatheter aortic valve replacement recipients

I Persits, S Mirzai, KS Sarnaik, MC Volk, J Yun… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Low muscle mass (LMM) is associated with worse outcomes in various clinical situations.
Traditional frailty markers have been used for preoperative risk stratification in patients who …

[HTML][HTML] The Impact of Metabolic Syndrome on Heart Failure in Young Korean Population: A Nationwide Study

TE Kim, H Kim, J Sung, DK Kim, MS Lee, SW Han… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Limited data are available regarding the effect of metabolic syndrome on heart failure (HF)
development in young individuals. Utilizing data from the Korean National Health Insurance …

Heart Failure and Obesity: Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms of Excess Adipose Tissue

J Dronkers, DJ van Veldhuisen, P van der Meer… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - jacc.org
Obesity is an ongoing pandemic and is associated with the development of heart failure
(HF), and especially HF with preserved ejection fraction. The definition of obesity is currently …

Greater pericardial and visceral adiposity increase risk of hospitalization or death from SARS-CoV-2 infection in community dwelling adults: A C4R Study

N Al-Naamani, P Balte, M Shashaty, A Sharaf, JG Terry… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Importance: Higher body mass index (BMI) increases risk of respiratory failure and death
from SARS-CoV-2 infection. BMI is imprecise and fails to account for adipose tissue …

Skeletal muscle quantity and quality evaluation in heart failure: comparing thoracic versus abdominopelvic CT approaches

S Mirzai, I Persits, P Martens, JD Estep… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Given the critical role of skeletal muscle in healthy aging, low muscle mass (myopenia) and
quality (myosteatosis) can be used as predictors of poor functional and cardiometabolic …

Associations of adipose tissue depots with cardiac resynchronization therapy response and clinical outcomes: A CRT-HF Clinic substudy

MC Volk, S Mirzai, I Persits, KS Sarnaik… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The region of adipose deposition is an important determinant in the outcomes
of patients with heart failure (HF). However, the impact of regional adiposity on HF patients …

It's a Matter of Fat: The Obesity Paradox in Heart Failure

HR Smith, LD Roberts, KK Witte - American Journal of Cardiology, 2023 - ajconline.org
The heart failure (HF) obesity paradox describes the phenomenon in which a higher body
mass index (BMI) is associated with a greater risk for HF development but better HF …