Trial reportThe American journal of cardiology2018
Relationship Between Psychosocial Stressors and Atrial Fibrillation in Women >45 Years of Age.
Trial report in The American journal of cardiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- Psychological aspects of atrial fibrillation: A systematic narrative review : Impact on incidence, cognition, prognosis, and symptom perception.Current cardiology reports · 2020Pooled it
- Is self-perception of cardiac symptoms related to the psychological profile of patients? A cross-sectional study of individuals undergoing 24-hour Holter monitoring.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Observational
- Neuroticism and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation: An Observational Epidemiologic and Mendelian Randomization Study.JACC. Asia · 2024Article
- Atrial fibrillation: comorbidities, lifestyle, and patient factors.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Review
- Does coping style mediate the relationship between knowledge and psychosocial outcomes in women with atrial fibrillation?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association Between Insomnia, Stress Events, and Other Psychosocial Factors and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Postmenopausal Women: Insights From the Women's Health Initiative.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- The Role of Major Biomarkers of Stress in Atrial Fibrillation: A Literature Review.The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management · 2023Review
- Transforming Atrial Fibrillation Research to Integrate Social Determinants of Health: A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop Report.JAMA cardiology · 2023Article
- Negative Impact of the UEFA European Soccer Championship on Central Hemodynamics and Arterial Stiffness: A Multicenter Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The association between social network index, atrial fibrillation, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Social determinants of atrial fibrillation.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2021Review
- Association of psychosocial factors with all-cause hospitalizations in patients with atrial fibrillation.Clinical cardiology · 2021Observational
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Risk for Early Incident Atrial Fibrillation: A Prospective Cohort Study of 1.1 Million Young Adults.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
- Atrial fibrillation.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2016Article
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Negative emotions have been linked to the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), and positive effect may be protective. However, there are few large-scale studies examining the association between psychosocial stressors that may provoke these emotions and the occurrence of AF. We examined the cross-sectional relation between psychosocial stress and AF in 24,809 women participating in the Women's Health Study. Participants answered questions about work stress (e.g., excessive work, conflicting demands), work-family spillover stress (e.g., too stressed after work to participate in activities with family), financial stress (e.g., difficulty paying monthly bills), traumatic life events (e.g., death of a child), everyday discrimination (e.g., less respect, poor service), intimate partner stress (e.g., how judgmental is your spouse/partner), neighborhood stress (e.g., neighborhood safety, trust), negative life events within 5 years (e.g., life threatening illness, legal problems), and cumulative stress (a weighted measure of the stress domains). The prevalence of confirmed AF was 3.84% (N = 953) and risk factor profiles differed by AF status. Women with AF reported significantly higher financial stress, traumatic life events, and neighborhood stress (p
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