Why the study?
Do markers of systemic inflammation predict the incidence of atrial fibrillation in women without a history of cardiovascular disease?
Do markers of systemic inflammation predict the incidence of atrial fibrillation in women without a history of cardiovascular disease?
Systemic inflammation is independently associated with the development of atrial fibrillation in women without prior cardiovascular disease.
Supports further study of inflammation in AF risk among women; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
In this large-scale prospective study among women without a history of cardiovascular disease, markers of systemic inflammation were significantly related to AF even after controlling for traditional risk factors.
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Conen et al. (2010) studied this question.
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