Chao PC, Rojas GÁ, André T, Agreda A, Rosello AY

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The relationship between body mass index and heart failure is complex. People with a higher index have a higher risk of presenting it, but they have lower mortality during the course of the disease than subjects with normal weight.
Objective: To evaluate the body mass index influence on mortality of heart failure patients.
Methods: An analytical, prospective cohort study was conducted in patients treated at the heart failure clinic at Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, from January 2006 to September 2016, with a three-year follow up.
Results: 53.4 % of patients were older than 70 years, 33.3 % died during the investigation and overweight or obese patients had longer survival than patients with normal weight with p= 0.001.
Conclusion: Overweight and obesity behaved as protectors in relation to mortality.