Background Diabetes and elevated blood glucose have been associated with increased risk
of atrial fibrillation in a number of epidemiological studies, however, the findings have not …

A number of clinical studies have reported that diabetes mellitus (DM) is an independent risk
factor for Atrial fibrillation (AF). After adjustment for other known risk factors including age …

Background: Meta-analysis is a widely used tool in which weighted information from multiple
similar studies is aggregated to increase statistical power. However, the exponential growth …

Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained arrhythmia, is closely intertwined with
metabolic abnormalities. Recently, a metabolic paradox in AF pathogenesis has been …

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF), which is the
most common sustained arrhythmia and is associated with substantial morbidity and …

Gender differences exist in cardiovascular or metabolic disease risk, beyond the protective
effect of estrogens, mostly burdening the postmenopausal female. We aimed to review …

Aim The association of diabetes with new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) remains controversial.
Hypertension may partly explain the risk association ascribed to diabetes. We studied the …

Aims To determine whether risk factor changes over 6 years were associated with the
incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) among middle-aged men in the Malmö Preventive Project …

Although low-grade inflammation has been linked to the prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF),
evidence from some reports suggest that autoimmune activation might potentially be a …

Introduction: Lipoproteins and the apolipoproteins (apo) that they carry are major
determinants of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) as well as metabolic, renal and inflammatory …