Measures of Body Size and Composition and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Older People: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Various anthropometric measures, including height, have been associated with atrial fibrillation (AF). This raises questions about the appropriateness of using ratio measures such as body mass index (BMI), which contains height squared in its denominator, in the evaluation of AF risk. Among older ad...

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Veröffentlicht in:Am J Epidemiol
Hauptverfasser: Karas, Maria G., Yee, Laura M., Biggs, Mary L., Djoussé, Luc, Mukamal, Kenneth J., Ix, Joachim H., Zieman, Susan J., Siscovick, David S., Gottdiener, John S., Rosenberg, Michael A., Kronmal, Richard A., Heckbert, Susan R., Kizer, Jorge R.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2016
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887576/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27188936
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv278
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