What is severe obesity doing to the heart muscle’s ability to contract? Elizabeth Tracey reports

About this episode

The episode discusses how severe obesity affects the contraction ability of heart muscle cells and the potential for weight loss to reverse this condition.

Severe obesity may impede the ability of units inside heart muscle cells called sarcomeres to contract, and losing weight may reverse that condition. That’s according to research by cardiologist David Kass and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, who looked closely at … What is severe obesity doing to the heart muscle’s ability to contract? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

People in this episode

Host: Elizabeth Tracey

Topics covered

• severe obesity
• heart muscle
• sarcomeres
• weight loss
• cardiology

Keywords

• severe obesity
• heart muscle
• sarcomeres
• weight loss
• cardiology

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Organizations: Johns Hopkins

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