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Study finds obese patients fair better than lean patients when hospitalized for acute heart failure

UCLA researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. The finding offers more insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure called the "obesity paradox."

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