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ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2015

Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Atrial Fibrillation: The REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.

Wesley T O'Neal, Waqas T Qureshi, Suzanne E Judd, Leslie A McClure, Mary Cushman, Virginia J Howard, George Howard, Elsayed Z Soliman

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Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) position paper on how to prevent atrial fibrillation endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS).Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2017
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Wesley T O'NealDepartment of Internal Medicine (Dr O'Neal); Department of Internal Medicine (Dr Qureshi, Dr Soliman), Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Department of Biostatistics (Dr Judd, Dr McClure, Dr G Howard), School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Departments of Medicine and Pathology (Dr Cushman), Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington; Department of Epidemiology (Dr VJ Howard), School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE) (Dr Soliman), Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Waqas T Qureshi
Suzanne E Judd
Leslie A McClure
Mary Cushman
Virginia J Howard
George Howard
Elsayed Z Soliman

Funding

VCID and Stroke in a Bi-racial National CohortU01NS041588 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI CUSHMAN, MARY, HOWARD, GEORGE · 2002 to 2022
$96.0M
NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS041588
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study examines the association between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and atrial fibrillation (AF).

methodsWe examined the cross-sectional association between ETS exposure and AF in 12,021 participants (mean age: 65 ± 9.9 years; 60% women; 40% blacks) from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study who self-identified as never smokers between 2003 and 2007.

resultsA total of 2503 (21%) participants reported ETS exposure. In a multivariate logistic regression model adjusted for sociodemographics and potential confounders, ETS exposure was significantly associated with AF (odds ratio = 1.27, 95% confidence interval = 1.08, 1.50).

conclusionsOur findings suggest that the harmful effects of ETS exposure extend to sustained arrhythmias such as AF.

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAtrial FibrillationCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisProspective StudiesRisk FactorsTobacco Smoke PollutionTobacco Smoke Pollution

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PMID26539762
PMCPMC4636018

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