The Prevalence of Cardiac Valvular Insufficiency Assessed by Transthoracic Echocardiography in Obese Patients Treated with Appetite-Suppressant Drugs
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- 10 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 339 (11) , 713-718
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199809103391101
Abstract
After case reports of cardiac-valve abnormalities related to the use of appetite suppressants were published, we undertook a study to determine the prevalence of the problem using transthoracic echocardiography.Keywords
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