Orthostatic change in blood pressure and incidence of atrial fibrillation: results from a bi-ethnic population based study.

Autonomic fluctuations are associated with the initiation and possibly maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, little is known about the relationship between orthostatic blood pressure change, a common manifestation of autonomic dysfunction, and incident AF.We examined whether supine-to-st...

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Main Authors: Sunil K Agarwal, Alvaro Alonso, Seamus P Whelton, Elsayed Z Soliman, Kathryn M Rose, Alanna M Chamberlain, Ross J Simpson, Josef Coresh, Gerardo Heiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3823988?pdf=render