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Obesity Linked To Left Heart Dysfunction, With or Without
Diabetes

June 15, 2005 - Left heart diastolic dysfunction is common
in fat people, especially those with diabetes.
	Researchers studied 133 obese people who had
echocardiograms before gastric bypass surgery. Average age
was 48 years. Forty had diabetes and 93 did not.
	Moderate or severe left heart weakness was found in
24 of 40 obese diabetics (60%) and in 21 of 93 obese non-
diabetics (23%).

Title:   Prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
         in obese persons with and without diabetes mellitus.
Authors: Di Stante B, Galandauer I, Aronow WS, McClung JA,
         Alas L, Salabay C, Belkin RN.
Source:  Am J Cardiol. 2005 Jun 15;95(12):1527-8.
PMID:    15950591.