Body surface area as a prognostic marker in chronic heart failure patients: results from the Heart Failure Registry of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Meta-Analysis of the Relation of Body Mass Index to All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality and Hospitalization in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

(2015) Abhishek Sharma et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Obesity and the Obesity Paradox in Heart Failure

(2015) Pritha P. Gupta et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Comparison of body mass index and body surface area as outcome predictors in patients with systolic heart failure

(2015) Barak Zafrir et al.   Cardiology Journal

Loss in body weight is an independent prognostic factor for mortality in chronic heart failure: insights from the GISSI-HF and Val-HeFT trials

(2015) Patrick Rossignol et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Differences in neurohormonal activity partially explain the obesity paradox in patients with heart failure: The role of sympathetic activation

(2015) Núria Farré et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Joint Impact of Body Mass Index and Physical Capacity on Mortality in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure

(2014) Barak Zafrir et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Are hospitalized or ambulatory patients with heart failure treated in accordance with European Society of Cardiology guidelines? Evidence from 12 440 patients of the ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry

(2013) Aldo P. Maggioni et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Anatomy of the obesity paradox in heart failure

(2013) Maya Guglin et al.   HEART FAILURE REVIEWS

Body Mass Index and Mortality in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure Across the World

(2013) Ravi Shah et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Impact of Obesity and the Obesity Paradox on Prevalence and Prognosis in Heart Failure

(2013) Carl J. Lavie et al.   JACC-Heart Failure

The association between obesity, mortality and filling pressures in pulmonary hypertension patients; the “obesity paradox”

(2012) Barak Zafrir et al.   RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, and Survival in Systolic Heart Failure: The Obesity Paradox Revisited

(2011) Adrienne L. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE

Adult candidates for heart transplantation with larger body surface area have better prognosis on waiting list after progression to critically ill status

(2010) Takeshi Komoda et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

Association of obesity and survival in systolic heart failure after acute myocardial infarction: potential confounding by age

(2010) Audrey H. Wu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Body mass indices and outcome in patients with chronic heart failure

(2010) James E. Futter et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Predicting Heart Failure Hospitalization and Mortality by Quantitative Echocardiography: Is Body Surface Area the Indexing Method of Choice? The Heart and Soul Study

(2010) Bryan Ristow et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

The obesity paradox in stable chronic heart failure does not persist after matching for indicators of disease severity and confounders

(2009) Lutz Frankenstein et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Body mass index and mortality in heart failure: A meta-analysis

(2008) Antigone Oreopoulos et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL