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Traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking, and excessive drinking are associated with an increased risk of incident atrial fibrillation.
This review emphasizes the importance of modifying traditional cardiovascular risk factors to prevent incident atrial fibrillation and highlights the need for race-specific AF risk scores.
To prevent atrial fibrillation (AF), it is essential to reduce its risk factors and extend healthy life expectancy as a result. There are few reviews on the AF risk factors. We discuss them and approach the prevention of AF. We briefly review traditional risk factors for incident AF, especially focusing on high blood pressure, overweight/obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes, tobacco smoking, and excessive drinking. When trying to prevent AF by modifying lifestyle, it is important to comprehensively utilize the risk factors for AF to predict the 10-year as an AF risk score. However, there are only 2 risk scores of AF just for the US population. There are few studies of the AF risk factors in non-Western populations. A risk score for incident AF in non-Westerners is awaited because different race and lifestyles may have different contributions as AF risk factors. An AF risk score in accordance with race could be useful for identifying persons with a high risk of AF in order to encourage them to consult a doctor and encourage lifestyle modifications before the onset of AF. (Circ J 2016; 80: 2415-2422).
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Kokubo et al. (2016) conducted a review in Incident Atrial Fibrillation. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, obesity, diabetes, smoking, alcohol) was evaluated. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking, and excessive drinking are associated with an increased risk of incident atrial fibrillation.
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