Atrial Fibrillation and Body Composition: Is it Fat or Lean That Ultimately Determines the Risk?

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¹ Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. Electronic address: stanley.nattel@icm-mhi.org.

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Stanley Nattel. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017.

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. 2017 May 23;69(20):2498-2501.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.03.566.

¹ Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. Electronic address: stanley.nattel@icm-mhi.org.

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Keywords: atrial remodeling; body height; body mass index; exercise; male; risk factors.

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Lean Body Mass Is the Predominant Anthropometric Risk Factor for Atrial Fibrillation.
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