ArticleScientific reports2023
Association of obesity with incident atrial fibrillation in Korea and the United Kingdom.
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- Association between prediabetes and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence and factors associated with atrial fibrillation among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus at Hoima Regional Referral Hospital, Western Uganda: a cross-sectional study.Cardiovascular diabetology. Endocrinology reports · 2026Article
- Nationwide Big Data Studies of Endocrine Diseases Using the Korean National Health Information Database: Research Trends and Standardization of Operational Definitions.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Review
- Prognostic associations of anthropometric indices with major health outcomes: A nationwide cohort study of 1.1 million adults.PloS one · 2026Article
- Sarcopenia in atrial fibrillation: a risk factor for adverse outcomes in a UK Biobank study.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 · 2025Article
- Revisiting the global burden of atrial fibrillation: associations with obesity and the increased risk of stroke.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2025Article
- Central obesity as a potential causal risk factor for atrial fibrillation: evidence from Mendelian randomization study.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 · 2024Article
- Association between Obesity and Heart Failure and Related Atrial Fibrillation: Patient-Level Data Comparisons of Two Cohort Studies.Yonsei medical journal · 2024Article
- DNA Methylation and Telomeres-Their Impact on the Occurrence of Atrial Fibrillation during Cardiac Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Obesity has been linked to atrial fibrillation (AF) burden and severity, and epidemiological studies suggest that AF is more prevalent in whites than Asian. We aimed to investigate whether obesity mediates associations with AF in Europe and Asia using patient-level data comparisons of two cohort studies. Using Korean National Health Insurance Service's Health Screening (NHIS-HealS) and U.K. Biobank data, we included 401,206 Korean and 477,926 British aged 40-70 years without previous AF who received check-ups. The incidence and risk of AF were evaluated regarding different body mass index (BMI) values. The obese proportion (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m
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