Obesity, Heart Failure Due to
- 3 July 1958
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 259 (1) , 34
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195807032590108
Abstract
WHEN it comes to a matter such as establishing a new eponym, "letting the fish and chips fall where they may"1 is excellent advice from the learned Dickensian scholars on the editorial board of the Journal. When the symptom complex under consideration, obesity associated with a reversible form of cardiopulmonary failure, has been recognized in the American literature for twenty-one years and interest has recently revived,2 the situation becomes one of general concern.Unfortunately, in any discussions of all-important priority, there are bound to be some hurt feelings, especially when, as in the present subject, the original description of . . .Keywords
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- Heart Failure Due to Extreme ObesityNew England Journal of Medicine, 1957