Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in obesity cannot be explained only by increased body mass (BM), BMI, or arterial hypertension (AH). Aim was to investigate possible clinical or hormonal predictors of LVH.Materials and methods: We examined women before The Programme of Weight Loss. The echocardiography was performed; mass of myocardium of LV (MMLV), relative wall thickness (RWT) and indexed MMLV (IMMLV) by body surface area were calculate...