Carotid Intima‐Media Thickness and Arterial Stiffness and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), and the Rotterdam Study

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the association of carotid intima‐media thickness (cIMT), carotid plaque, carotid distensibility coefficient (DC), and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) and their role in improving AF risk prediction beyond the Cohorts for Heart and Agin...

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Autores principales: Chen, Lin Y., Leening, Maarten J. G., Norby, Faye L., Roetker, Nicholas S., Hofman, Albert, Franco, Oscar H., Pan, Wei, Polak, Joseph F., Witteman, Jacqueline C.M., Kronmal, Richard A., Folsom, Aaron R., Nazarian, Saman, Stricker, Bruno H., Heckbert, Susan R., Alonso, Alvaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4889172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27207996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002907

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4889172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27207996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002907

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