Linking pediatric obesity to subclinical alterations in cardiac structure and function

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Dec;7(12):1206-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.09.006. Epub 2014 Oct 14.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
³ Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: Gerald.Marx@cardio.chboston.org.

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Keywords: children; circumferential strain; echocardiography; longitudinal strain; obesity.

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