Body Weights in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease and the Obesity Frequency

• Published in: The American journal of cardiology Vol. 119; no. 4; pp. 638 - 642
• Main Authors: Lerman, Joseph B., BA, Parness, Ira A., MD, Shenoy, Rajesh U., MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.02.2017; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Age; Aged; Body Mass Index; Body Weight; Cardiovascular; Cardiovascular disease; Case-Control Studies; Classification; Congenital diseases; Ethnicity; Female; Gender; Heart; Heart Defects, Congenital - epidemiology; Humans; Male; Middle age; Middle Aged; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Obesity; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity, Morbid - epidemiology; Odds Ratio; Overweight - epidemiology; Prevalence; Retrospective Studies; United States - epidemiology; Adult Congenital Heart Disease; Obesity; Congenital Heart Disease

Abstract Obesity may associate with greater cardiovascular risk in adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) than in the general population. As ACHD often have exercise limitations, they may be uniquely predisposed to obesity. Nevertheless, obesity prevalence in ACHD, as compared to the general po...