ReviewAmerican heart journal2011
Differential impact of race and risk factors on incidence of atrial fibrillation.
Review in American heart journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Utilization and Outcomes of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter: a State-of-the-Art Review.Current cardiology reports · 2026Review
- Temporal trends and racial disparities in atrial fibrillation ablation: A 5-year study.Journal of arrhythmia · 2025Article
- The Impact of Weight Categories on the Association Between Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and Known Risk Factors: A Nationwide Inpatient Data Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Atrial fibrillation in Black American patients: A review of genetics, risk factors, and outcomes.Heart rhythm · 2025Review
- National Trends in Mortality Due to Ischemic Stroke Among Older Adults With Atrial Fibrillation in the USA, 1999-2020.Clinical cardiology · 2025Article
- A novel gain-of-function mutationAmerican journal of cardiovascular disease · 2025Article
- Atrial fibrillation: pathophysiology, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Review
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- A nationwide analysis of the outcomes in hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation and temperature-related illnesses.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023Article
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- Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Atrial Fibrillation: Honing in on Race-Specific Susceptibilities.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2018Article
- Lifetime Risk of Atrial Fibrillation by Race and Socioeconomic Status: ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities).Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · 2018Article
- Detecting cerebrovascular changes in the brain caused by hypertension in atrial fibrillation group using acoustocerebrography.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Atrial fibrillation in immigrant groups: a cohort study of all adults 45 years of age and older in Sweden.European journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Effect of Digoxin Use Among Medicaid Enrollees With Atrial Fibrillation.Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · 2017Article
- Ethnicity and anticoagulation management of hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation in northwest China.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Evaluating the benefits of home-based management of atrial fibrillation: current perspectives.Pragmatic and observational research · 2016Review
- Atrial fibrillation in the Indigenous populations of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States: a systematic scoping review.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
Despite some common risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF) being more prevalent among blacks, African Americans are increasingly being reported with lower prevalence and incidence of AF compared with whites. Contemporary studies have not provided a complete explanation for this apparent AF paradox in African Americans. Although many traditional and novel risk factors for AF have been identified, the role of ethnic-specific risk factors has not been examined. Whereas hypertension has been the most common risk factor associated with AF, coronary artery disease also plays an important role in AF pathophysiology in whites. Thereby, elucidating the role of ethnic-specific risk factors for AF may provide important insight into why African Americans are protected from AF or why whites are more prone to develop the arrhythmia. The link between AF susceptibility and genetic processes has only been recently uncovered. Polymorphisms in renin-angiotensin system genes have been characterized as predisposing to AF under certain environmental conditions. Several ion channel genes, signaling molecules, and several genetic loci have been linked with AF. Thereby, studies investigating genetic variants contributing to the differential AF risk in individuals of African American versus European ancestry may also provide important insight into the etiology of the AF paradox in blacks.
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