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- Title
Effect of obesity on cardiac function in children and adolescents: A review.
- Authors
Rowland, Thomas W.
- Abstract
The article offers information on cardiac findings in obese adults which are typical in the findings observed in obese children, as reviewed by the Baystate Medical Center Department of Pediatrics in Springfield, Massachusetts. These cardiac findings were the increasing cardiac mass, stroke volume and ventricular dimensions and followed by apparent diminishing of the diastolic and systolic ventricular function.
- Subjects
SPRINGFIELD (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; CHILDHOOD obesity; DIASTOLE (Cardiac cycle); CARDIAC contraction; CHILDREN'S health; MEDICAL centers
- Publication
Journal of Sports Science & Medicine, 2007, Vol 6, Issue 3, p319
- ISSN
1303-2968
- Publication type
Article