Assessment of myocardial ischemia in obese individuals undergoing physical stress echocardiography (PSE)

Physical stress echocardiography is an established methodology for diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary artery disease in patients with physical capacity. In obese (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2) the usefulness of pharmacological stress echocardiography has been demonstrated; however, has not been reported the use of physical stress echocardiography in this growing population group.To assess the frequency of myocardial ischemia in obese...