Stature, obesity, and atrial fibrillation: Does appearance matter?

Li-Wei Lo¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine Taipei Veterans General Hospital Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Institute National Yang-Ming University Taipei Taiwan.

Editorial

Li-Wei Lo. J Arrhythm. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 6;36(6):982-983.

doi: 10.1002/joa3.12423. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Li-Wei Lo¹

¹ Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine Taipei Veterans General Hospital Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Institute National Yang-Ming University Taipei Taiwan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

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