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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Aug;5(8):816–818. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.07.001

Table.

Effects of Obesity on the CV System

Systemic Cardiac
Insulin resistance

  • Glucose intolerance

  • Metabolic syndrome

  • Diabetes mellitus

 Altered Cardiac Geometry

  • LA enlargement

  • LV Concentric and eccentric hypertrophy

  • LV remodeling
Dyslipidemia

  • Elevations in total and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides

  • Decline in HDL cholesterol

 LV dysfunction

  • Diastolic

  • Systolic
Hypertension Endothelial dysfunction
Increased inflammation Coronary artery disease
Pro-thrombotic state Heart Failure
Arrhythmias

  • Atrial fibrillation

  • Ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation

LDL- Low density lipoprotein; HDL – High density lipoprotein; LV – Left ventricle