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Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension in the Bariatric Surgery Patient

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Obesity increases an individual’s risk for cardiovascular disease by causing a variety of cardiac structural changes, hemodynamic alterations, and metabolic dyscrasias that lead to both myocardial and endothelial dysfunction. Obesity is associated with an increase in both total blood volume and cardiac output due to the increased metabolic demands of excessive fat accumulation. This increased workload leads to an increased left ventricular mass and hypertrophy, which predispose to a clinically significant imbalance between perfusion and metabolic demand known as the syndrome of obesity cardiomyopathy (1).

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Daniel Edmundowicz MD, MS, FACC (Associate Professor, Director of Preventive Cardiology and Outpatient Services)

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  1. Lerner College of Medicine, USA

    Philip R. Schauer MD (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

  2. Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Philip R. Schauer MD (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

  3. Department of Surgery Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA

    Bruce D. Schirmer MD (Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery) (Stephen H. Watts Professor of Surgery)

  4. Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Stacy A. Brethauer MD (Staff Surgeon) (Staff Surgeon)

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Edmundowicz, D. (2007). Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension in the Bariatric Surgery Patient. In: Schauer, P.R., Schirmer, B.D., Brethauer, S.A. (eds) Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68062-0_55

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