Body Mass Index and Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Outcomes: Is Overweight the New Normal? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Although high body mass index (BMI) is a known risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases, people who are overweight or obese often have better outcomes after cardiac procedures. Whether this "obesity paradox" is observed in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is unknown. Therefore, we examined the association of BMI with the outcomes of CTO-PCI in patients from the large, multicenter PROGRESS-CTO registry after stratifying patients into 3 BMI groups.

publication date

  • January 13, 2023

Research

keywords

  • Coronary Occlusion
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Identity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.25270/jic/22.00033

PubMed ID

  • 36645332

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 35

issue

  • 3