Obesity, metabolic syndrome and risk of atrial fibrillation: a Swedish, prospective cohort study.

We aimed to investigate whether different measures of obesity could similarly predict atrial fibrillation, and whether the atrial fibrillation risk associated with obesity is dependent on presence of metabolic syndrome.We performed our study in a population-based longitudinal cardiovascular study, c...

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Main Authors: Petter K Nyström, Axel C Carlsson, Karin Leander, Ulf de Faire, Mai-Lis Hellenius, Bruna Gigante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4433194?pdf=render