Are blood lipid levels associated with the incidence of atrial fibrillation?
In community-based cohorts, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides, but not LDL or total cholesterol, are associated with the risk of developing atrial fibrillation.
In these 2 community-based cohorts, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides but not low-density lipoprotein cholesterol or total cholesterol were associated with the risk of AF, accounting for other cardiometabolic risk factors.
Alonso et al. (2014) studied this question.
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