Directly Measured Fat Mass and Heart Failure Prognosis-A New Twist in the Obesity Paradox

Affiliations

• ¹ The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-the UQ School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Electronic address: clavie@ochsner.org.
• ² Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospital, Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ³ Nutrition Program, EVMS School of Health Professions, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders, Strelitz Diabetes Center, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
• ⁴ Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.