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Relationship Between Obesity and Global Longitudinal Strain in the Pediatric Single Ventricle Fontan Population Across Ventricular Morphologies

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundObesity is associated with diminished myocardial function as measured by strain echocardiography in children and young adults with normal cardiac anatomy. The abnormal BMI group demonstrated diminished GLS (−15.7±3.6% 3.2%, [P=0.03]) and elevated systolic blood pressure (P=0.04) compared with the normal BMI group.

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