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Atrial Fibrillation
Researchers from University Hospital provide details of new studies and findings in the area of atrial fibrillation
June 18th, 2009
"The influence of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) on incident atrial fibrillation (AF) is not well studied among initially healthy, middle-aged women. A total of 34 221 women participating in the Women's Health Study were prospectively followed up for incident AF," researchers in Basel, Switzerland report. "The risk of AF across categories of systolic and diastolic BP was compared by use of Cox proportional-hazards models. During 12.4 years of follow-up, 644 incident AF events occurred. Using BP measurements at baseline, we discovered that the long-term risk of AF was significantly increased across categories of systolic and diastolic BP....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-18)
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