Emphasis on abdominal obesity as a modifier of eplerenone effect in heart failure: hypothesis-generating signals from EMPHASIS-HF

Affiliations

• ¹ Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
• ² George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ³ Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁴ University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medicine Göttingen (UMG) and German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Göttingen, Germany.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiology and Metabolism - Heart Failure, Cachexia & Sarcopenia; Department of Cardiology (CVK); and Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.