Short term variation in NTproBNP after lifestyle intervention in severe obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Natriuretic peptides are not only involved in cardiovascular adaption to various conditions, but also in metabolic diseases. We performed this study to assess the effect of a very short time of lifestyle inpatient intervention on NTproBNP values in normotensive subjects with severe obesity and normal cardiac function.

Methods

We recruited 14 consecutive obese normotensive subjects with normal cardiac function who were aged 30 years and more and were referred to inpatient rehabilitation in an academic clinic over a two months period. They were examined at baseline and after a 3-weeks program including dietary intervention with hypocaloric diet and assisted personalized physical aerobic and anaerobic activities and compared to age, sex and BMI-matched control subjects unde

SUBMITTER: Fedele D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5509288 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature