The Changing Landscape of Atrial Fibrillation: Time to Target Heart Failure Prevention

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¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
² University Heart Center Hamburg, Clinic for General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), partner site Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Germany.
³ Department of Biostatics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Section of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Boston University and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts. Electronic address: emelia@bu.edu.

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Darae Ko et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2017 Aug.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2017.05.002. Epub 2017 Jun 14.

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
² University Heart Center Hamburg, Clinic for General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK e.V.), partner site Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Germany.
³ Department of Biostatics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Section of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Boston University and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts. Electronic address: emelia@bu.edu.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; heart failure; prevention; risk factors.

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Modifiable Risk Factors for Incident Heart Failure in Atrial Fibrillation.
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