ArticleJournal of cardiology2018
The association between relevant co-morbidities and prevalent as well as incident heart failure in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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- A machine learning tool for identifying newly diagnosed heart failure in individuals with known diabetes in primary care.ESC heart failure · 2025Article
- Association of proteinuria with incident atrial fibrillation in the general Japanese population.Journal of cardiology · 2021Article
- Use of cardiovascular drugs and risk of incident heart failure in patients with atrial fibrillation.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Allostatic load in the association of depressive symptoms with incident coronary heart disease: The Jackson Heart Study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Article
- The association between gout and cardiovascular disease in patients with atrial fibrillation.SN comprehensive clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Association Between Relevant Co-Morbidities and Dementia With Atrial Fibrillation-A National Study.Archives of medical research · 2019Article
- Associations between relevant cardiovascular pharmacotherapies and incident heart failure in patients with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study in primary care.Journal of hypertension · 2018Article
- Patients with atrial fibrillation and permanent pacemaker: Temporal changes in patient characteristics and pharmacotherapy.PloS one · 2018Article
- Value of peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for clinical diagnosis and prognosis of elderly patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation.Cardiovascular journal of AfricaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundCongestive heart failure (CHF) is a serious complication in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).
objectiveTo study associations between relevant co-morbidities and CHF in patients with AF.
methodsStudy population included all adults (n=12,283) ≥45 years diagnosed with AF at 75 primary care centers in Sweden 2001-2007. Logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations between co-morbidities, and prevalent CHF. In a subsample (n=9424), (excluding patients with earlier CHF), Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios with 95% CIs for the association between co-morbidities, and a first hospital diagnosis of CHF, after adjustment for age and socio-economic factors.
resultsDuring 5.4 years' follow-up (standard deviation 2.5), 2259 patients (24.0%; 1135 men, 21.8%, and 1124 women, 26.7%) were diagnosed with CHF. Patients with hypertension were less likely to have CHF, while a diagnosis of coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, diabetes, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), was consistently associated with CHF among men and women. CHF was more common among women with depression. The relative fully adjusted risk of incident CHF was increased for the following diseases in men with AF: valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, and diabetes; and for the following diseases in women: valvular heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and COPD. The corresponding risk was decreased among women for hypertension.
conclusionsIn this clinical setting we found hypertension to be associated with a decreased risk of CHF among women; valvular heart disease and diabetes to be associated with an increased risk of CHF in both sexes; and cardiomyopathy to be associated with an increased risk of CHF among men.
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