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Bahadir Simsek, Spyridon Kostantinis, Judit Karacsonyi
1Minneapolis Heart Institute, Chairman of the Center for Coronary Artery Disease at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, 920 East 28th Street #300, Minneapolis, MN 55407 USA. esbrilakis@gmail.com.
Background:
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.
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