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Introduction The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines obesity as “abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health” and classifies obesity based on body mass index (BMI), with those with a BMI of 25–30 kg/m2 termed as overweight and those with BMI over 30 kg/m2 defined as obese.1,2 Obesity has reached pandemic levels in the last 50 years.3 One and a half billion people over the age of 20 in the world are thought to be overweight or obese.4 Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation leading to insulin resistance, which may progress to diabetes mellitus.5 Moreover, fatty liver disease, systemic hypertension

Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group 2015 ISBN: 978-1-4822-3192-2 Price: £27.99 Echocardiography is considered to be the only one diagnostic tool that allows live assessment of a beating heart, either cardiac function or valvular function as well as morphologic evaluation. It is therefore one of the most widely used first-line cardiac diagnostic tools for both cardiac and non-cardiac clinicians. This book, by authors among the most experienced echocardiographers provides an up-to-date and clear overview for how to report and interpret echocardiograms. With the straightforward approach, this book sets out to make an echo report in