Obese children and myocardial deformation changes: some discrepancies but a large number of common points

Abstract

We read with interest the article entitled ‘Alterations of left ventricular myocardial strain in obese children’ by Labombarda et al. 1 regarding the use of two-dimensional (2D) strain imaging to study whether severely overweight children show early abnormalities in myocardial function. First of all we would like to point out that we published an article with a similar population and similar results 2 years ago.2 We also would like to make some comments with the intention to help to …