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Revised on February 3, 2004

Obesity and Hypertension-Induced Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. A Harbinger of Things to Come

Bernhard Pilz; Jan-Hinrich Bräsen; Wolfgang Schneider; and Friedrich C. Luft^*

From the Medical Faculty of the Charité (B.P., F.C.L.), Intensive Care Unit, Franz Volhard Clinic and Department of Pathology (J.-H.B., W.S.), HELIOS Klinikum, Berlin, Germany.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: luft{at}fvk-berlin.de.