Mortality Across the Pre- and Post-Heart Transplant Continuum for Patients With Severe Obesity

Affiliations

• ¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ² CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic Research Institute for Intractable Cardiovascular Disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ⁵ CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Electronic address: vesta2@ccf.org.