Reda Biomy, Heba Mansour, Mohamad Hassan, Neama Elmeligy and Hany Ebaid
Aim: Obesity is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability. Objectives: Assessment of subclinical effects of obesity on left ventricular structure and systolic function by strain and strain rate tissue Doppler imaging. Patients and methods: Fifty obese patients with body mass index >30 kg/m² and without cardiovascular disease were included. Twenty five patients of this group were severely obese (BMI>35 kg/ m²) and another 25 were mildly obese (BMI 30-35 kg/m²). Another 50 age-and sex-matched healthy volunteers (BMI
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