European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(23):2950; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm460
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Effects of obesity on mortality in patients with unstable angina or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Department of Internal Medicine
University Hospital Zurich
Ramistrasse 100
Zurich 8091
Switzerland
Cardiovascular Department
Division of Angiology
University Hospital Berne
Berne 3010
Switzerland
Tel: +41 442555663 Fax: +41 442558747 E-mail address: barton@usz.ch
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In a recent article, Buettner et al.1 proposed that obesity is associated with improved outcome in coronary artery disease patients after early revascularization because of UA/NSTEMI over a mean follow-up time of 17 months. The data presented in the first figure