Title | Association of Weight and Body Composition on Cardiac Structure and Function in the ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities). |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Bello NA, Cheng S, Claggett B, Shah AM, Ndumele CE, Roca GQuerejeta, Santos ABS, Gupta D, Vardeny O, Aguilar D, Folsom AR, Butler KR, Kitzman DW, Coresh JJ |
Secondary Authors | Solomon SD |
Journal | Circ Heart Fail |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 8 |
Date Published | 2016 08 |
ISSN | 1941-3297 |
Keywords | Adiposity, African Americans, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Atherosclerosis, Body Mass Index, Body Weight, Cross-Sectional Studies, Echocardiography, Doppler, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Humans, Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular, Male, Obesity, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, United States, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right, Ventricular Function, Left, Ventricular Function, Right, Ventricular Remodeling, Waist Circumference |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Obesity increases cardiovascular risk. However, the extent to which various measures of body composition are associated with abnormalities in cardiac structure and function, independent of comorbidities commonly affecting obese individuals, is not clear. This study sought to examine the relationship between body mass index, waist circumference, and percent body fat with conventional and advanced measures of cardiac structure and function. METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied 4343 participants of the ARIC study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) who were aged 69 to 82 years, free of coronary heart disease and heart failure, and underwent comprehensive echocardiography. Increasing body mass index, waist circumference, and body fat were associated with greater left ventricular (LV) mass and left atrial volume indexed to height(2.7) in both men and women (P CONCLUSIONS: In a large, biracial cohort of older adults free of clinically overt coronary heart disease or heart failure, obesity was associated with subclinical abnormalities in cardiac structure in both men and women and with adverse LV remodeling and impaired LV systolic function in women. These data highlight the association of obesity and subclinical abnormalities of cardiac structure and function, particularly in women. |
DOI | 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002978 |
Alternate Journal | Circ Heart Fail |
PubMed ID | 27512104 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC5218510 |
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