Reduced Right Ventricular Sarcomere Contractility in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Severe Obesity

Circulation. 2021 Mar 2;143(9):965-967. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052414. Epub 2020 Dec 2.

M Imran Aslam¹, Virginia S Hahn¹, Vivek Jani², Steven Hsu¹, Kavita Sharma¹, David A Kass^{1

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.I.A., V.S.H., S.H., K.S., D.A.K.), The Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering (V.J., D.A.K.), The Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
³ Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences (D.A.K.), The Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

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Keywords: body mass index; calcium; heart failure; hypertension; hypertrophy; sarcomeres; ventricular function.

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