Cover Story | New Frontiers in Heart Failure Care: Innovations Reshaping Treatment – American College of Cardiology
The idea that obesity increases the risk of heart failure seems like an obvious conclusion. After all, as the Framingham Heart Study clearly showed, obesity and overweight are significantly associated with a higher risk of hypertension, angina and coronary heart disease. 1 In addition, up to 80% of people with the most common form of the condition, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), have overweight or obesity. 2-4 Yet for decades, says Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, FACC, who co-directs the
