Obstructive sleep apnea, obesity, and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation.

By A. Gami, D. Hodge, R. Herges, E. Olson, J. Nykodým, T. Kara, Virend K. Somers. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2007

1,048 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

1. Virend K. Somers
2. Stanley Nattel
3. S. Daniels
4. Gerhard Hindricks

In Physiology

1. Virend K. Somers
2. J. Floras
3. T. Young
4. Atul Malhotra
5. Naresh M. Punjabi

In Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

1. T. Young

Citations in the corpus

• 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, methodology): “This relationship holds true even after multivariate adjustment for other known risk factors, with 3%–7% increased AF risk per unit increment of body mass index (BMI).(8,276,277,278)”
• 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. (2014, neutral): “Wang TJ, Parise H, Levy D, et al. Obesity and the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation.”
• Obstructive sleep apnea: a cardiometabolic risk in obesity and the metabolic syndrome. (2013, background): “Indeed, in a retrospective cohort study of 3,542 Olmsted County adults, obesity and the magnitude of nocturnal oxygen desaturation were independent risk factors for incident atrial fibrillation in individuals <65 years of age (72).”
• Atrial fibrillation: profile and burden of an evolving epidemic in the 21st century. (2013, background): “…diseases with an adjusted odds ratio for the association between AF and OSA of 2.19 (95% CI, 1.40 to 3.42; Gami et al., 2004) Gami et al. (2004), Gami et al. (2007) and Schoonderwoerd et al. (2008) Cardiothoracic surgery (e.g. coronary artery bypass graft surgery): likelihood of AF increases if…”
• Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: an American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research Professional Education Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke Council, and Coun (2008, background): “In a retrospective cohort study of 3500 adults without past or current atrial fibrillation who underwent complete overnight polysomnography, both obesity and nocturnal oxygen desaturation were independent predictors of incident atrial fibrillation, but only in subjects 65 years of age (66).”