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SUBMITTER: Kwon Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6279118 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwon Younghoon Y Misialek Jeffrey R JR Duprez Daniel D Alonso Alvaro A Jacobs David R DR Heckbert Susan R SR Redline Susan S Soliman Elsayed Z EZ
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 20171101 11
<h4>Aims</h4>Electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of left atrial (LA) abnormalities have been linked to increased risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) has been associated with increased risk of AF. We aimed to examine the association of ECG markers of LA abnormalities with SDB.<h4>Methods and results</h4>1546 participants (mean age 67.2 years, 53.4% women, and 63.3% non-whites) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Exam 5 Sleep ancillary study were included i ...[more]