Blood Pressure Control and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation
Open Access
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Hypertension
- Vol. 21 (10) , 1111-1116
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ajh.2008.248
Abstract
Background. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia that affects more than 2 million people in the United States. We sought to determine whetherKeywords
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