%0 Journal Article
%T Effect of obesity on the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization to reduce the risk of first and recurrent ventricular tachyarrhythmia events
%A Arthur J. Moss
%A Barbara Szepietowska
%A Bronislava Polonsky
%A Mehmet Aktas
%A Saadia Sherazi
%A Scott McNitt
%A Valentina Kutyifa
%A Wojciech Zareba
%A Yitschak Biton
%J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diabetology".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s12933-016-0401-x
%X Obesity is associated with multiple adverse cardiovascular conditions and may increase the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT/VF). There is limited data on the association between obesity and risk of VT/VF requiring appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapies and the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) to reduce risk for VT/VF. The multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial with cardiac resynchronization therapy (MADIT-CRT) was design to investigate effectiveness of CRT therapy to reduce cardiovascular outcome for patients with heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction
%K Obesity
%K Cardiac resynchronization therapy
%K Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
%K Heart failure
%K Ventricular tachyarrhythmias
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936234/