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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v3">6ntQ5DLCcksCJtYhHKFd9Gx</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v2">S0066-782X2014000500014</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">00014</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20140059</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Carta ao Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="pt">Obesidade e Altera&#231;&#227;o dos Par&#226;metros
               Ecocardiogr&#225;ficos</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Wilhelms</surname>
            <given-names>Roberta Casanova</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosa</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Maffini da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lizott</surname>
            <given-names>Mauricio</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Melo</surname>
            <given-names>Raphael Martin de</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <aff>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de Caxias do Sul</institution>
          <addr-line>
            <named-content content-type="city">Caxias do Sul</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
          </addr-line>
          <country>Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS, Caxias do
                  Sul, RS - Brasil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Roberta Casanova Wilhelms,</bold> Rua Humberto de Campos,
               1113, Cristo Redentor. CEP 95084-440, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brasil. E-mail:
                  <email>robi_casanova@hotmail.com</email>, <email>beta.rcw@gmail.com</email>
				</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>102</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>518</fpage>
      <lpage>518</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>13</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>29</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">
          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
                  Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted
                  non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
                  original work is properly cited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
        <kwd>Obesidade</kwd>
        <kwd>Ecocardiografia</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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        <ref-count count="2"/>
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  </front>
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    <p>
      <bold>Prezado Editor,</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Cumprimentamos os autores do artigo publicado, sob o t&#237;tulo "O Impacto da Obesidade Isolada
         na Fun&#231;&#227;o do Ventr&#237;culo Direito em Adultos Jovens"<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>.
         Entendemos que as altera&#231;&#245;es hemodin&#226;micas pr&#243;prias da obesidade poderiam modificar os
         par&#226;metros ecocardiogr&#225;ficos alterados nesse estudo, ou seja, o aumento da volemia traria
         um readequamento dos par&#226;metros de fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular sem que haja, concomitantemente,
         altera&#231;&#245;es de fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular propriamente dita, qual a opini&#227;o dos autores sobre essa
            an&#225;lise?<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
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      <title>Refer&#234;ncias</title>
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        <label>1</label>
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      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Letter to the Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Obesity and Abnormalities in Echocardiographic
               Parameters</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Wilhelms</surname>
            <given-names>Roberta Casanova</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c02"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosa</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Maffini da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lizott</surname>
            <given-names>Mauricio</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Melo</surname>
            <given-names>Raphael Martin de</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <aff>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de Caxias do Sul</institution>
          <addr-line>
            <named-content content-type="city">Caxias do Sul</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
          </addr-line>
          <country>Brazil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS, Caxias do
                  Sul, RS - Brazil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Mailing Address: Roberta Casanova Wilhelms,</bold> Rua Humberto de Campos,
               1113, Cristo Redentor. Postal Code: 95084-440, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brazil. E-mail:
                  <email>robi_casanova@hotmail.com</email>, <email>beta.rcw@gmail.com</email>
				</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <kwd>Obesity</kwd>
        <kwd>Echocardiography</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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    <body>
      <p>
        <bold>Dear Editor,</bold>
      </p>
      <p>We congratulate the authors of the manuscript published under the title "The Impact of
            Isolated Obesity on Right Ventricular Function in Young Adults"<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>. We believe that the hemodynamic changes that characterize obesity
            could modify the echocardiographic parameters found abnormal in this study, that is,
            increased volemia would readjust the parameters of ventricular function without any
            concomitant changes in ventricular function. What is the authors' opinion about this
               analysis?<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
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