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SUBMITTER: Lamprea-Montealegre JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lamprea-Montealegre Julio A JA Zelnick Leila R LR Shlipak Michael G MG Floyd James S JS Anderson Amanda H AH He Jiang J Christenson Rob R Seliger Stephen L SL Soliman Elsayed Z EZ Deo Rajat R Ky Bonnie B Feldman Harold I HI Kusek John W JW deFilippi Christopher R CR Wolf Myles S MS Shafi Tariq T Go Alan S AS Bansal Nisha N
Journal of the American Heart Association 20190805 15
Background We tested associations of cardiac biomarkers of myocardial stretch, injury, inflammation, and fibrosis with the risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) in a prospective study of chronic kidney disease patients. Methods and Results The study sample was 3053 participants with chronic kidney disease in the multicenter CRIC (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) study who were not identified as having AF at baseline. Cardiac biomarkers, measured at baseline, were NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro ...[more]