Does alcohol consumption predict left atrial enlargement and incident atrial fibrillation in a community-based sample?
Alcohol consumption predicts left atrial enlargement, suggesting it may be an intermediate phenotype linking long-term alcohol consumption to incident atrial fibrillation.
Our study of a large, community-based sample identified alcohol consumption as a predictor of left atrial enlargement and subsequent incident AF. Left atrial enlargement may be an intermediate phenotype along the causal pathway linking long-term alcohol consumption to AF.
McManus et al. (Thu,) studied this question.