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SUBMITTER: Li W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4586150 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Weiqin W Katzmarzyk Peter T PT Horswell Ronald R Zhang Yonggang Y Wang Yujie Y Johnson Jolene J Hu Gang G
Circulation. Heart failure 20150213 3
<h4>Background</h4>Epidemiological data on the association between body mass index (BMI) and heart failure (HF) risk among diabetic patients are rare.<h4>Methods and results</h4>We performed a prospective cohort study of risk for HF among 31 155 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (11 468 men and 19 687 women). Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the association of different levels of BMI with HF risk. During a mean follow-up of 7.8 years, 5834 subjects developed ...[more]