Christian Schulze: Time to Say Good-Bye to The “Obesity Paradox”?
Christian Schulze, Professor of Medicine at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, shared on LinkedIn:
”Microvascular dysfunction is a remaining diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in ACS.
We show that an increased BMI has been associated with microvascular dysfunction after NSTEMI.
BMI above 25.6 kg/m² is an independent predictors of microvascular dysfunction.
Time to say good-bye to the “obesity paradox”?
Congrats to the TATORT-NSTEMI investigators!”
Read the full article here.
Article: Overweight predisposes to microvascular obstruction: insights from the TATORT-NSTEMI trial
Authors: Felix Troger, Ingo Eitel, Roza Saraei, Thomas Stiermaier, Michael Böhm, Bernward Lauer, P Christian Schulze, Tobias Geisler, Leonhard Bruch, Norbert Klein, Uwe Zeymer, Agnes Mayr, Maria Buske, Steffen Desch, Holger Thiele, Hans-Josef Feistritzer

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