 Create insight in the epidemiology of obesity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;  Understand the impact of obesity on lung function, symptoms and exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;  Learn about the obesity paradox in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;  Receiving insight in the importance of nutritional counsellin...

Abstract Background In a few studies, obesity was associated with better outcomes in patients cardiogenic shock (CS). Although this phenomenon, the “obesity paradox”, reportedly manifests differently based on sex other disease entities, it has not yet been investigated CS patients. Methods and results 1,227 from The REtrospective prospective observational Study to investigate Clinical oUtcomes ...

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care 2010, 13:618–624 Purpose of review Obese individuals have impaired respiratory function relative to their normal-weight counterparts. Despite these negative effects, obesity is paradoxically associated with better survival in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The purpose of this review is to describe this ‘obe...

BACKGROUND We investigated whether the 'obesity paradox' in heart failure (HF) is influenced by common confounders, and assessed if body surface area (BSA) may correlate more closely than body mass index (BMI) with prognosis. METHODS We studied 630 systolic HF patients at their initial visit to the HF clinic. Body size was measured by BMI and BSA. The association between body indices and mort...

At the beginning of the 21st Century, obesity has become the leading metabolic disease in the world, So that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to obesity as the global epidemic [1]. Obesity has important clinical and epidemiological implications as it is associated with many metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, a relation has been established between obesity and insulin resistance, t...