Fatima Fadhl Ali Mohammed <br/><br/>
Different impacts of the metabolic syndrome on right ventricular function in patients with central obesity /  
 التأثيرات المختلفة للمتلازمة الأيضية على وظائف البطين الأيمن فى مرضى السمنة المركزية 
Fatima Fadhl Ali Mohammed ; Supervised Zeinab Attia Ashour , Sameh Wadie Bakhoum , Dalia Rifaat Elremisy 
 - Cairo :   Fatima Fadhl Ali Mohammed ,   2014 
 - 113 P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
<br/><br/> The aim of this study was to assess the different impacts of the metabolic syndrome (MS) on the right ventricular function in patients with central obesity. Cross-sectional analytic study included 100 centrally obese subjects; MS was defined by the presence of  3 ATP - NCEP III criteria, all subjects underwent waist circumference (WC) measurement, BMI calculation, BP measurement, laboratory blood tests, complete RV and conventional LV 2D echocardiographic study. Metabolic syndrome was found in 57% of the subjects, 7 of them had the whole 5 criteria. There was no statistically important difference in the gender distribution; about half of the subjects were females. The age was higher in MS patients and showed a statistically important difference compared with non MS 49.10 ± 9.88 vs. 40.27 ± 9.99 years, P < .001 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Central obesity Metabolic syndrome Right ventricle