Obesity and new-onset atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction: a gender specific risk factor

Relation of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Two studies had no data on preprocedural NT-proBNP levels. The foregoing studies were all excluded, and six observational studies [6][7][8][9]16,17] were finally included in our meta-analysis ( Figure 1). As a result, a total of 5861 patients were involved in our review: 438 in the new-onset AF group, and 5423 in the no-AF group.…”

“…Because this test has poor power in the event of few studies, we considered both the presence of significant heterogeneity at the 10% level of significance and values of I 2 exceeding 56% as an indicator of significant heterogeneity [14], so that a pooled effect could be calculated with a random-effects model that was used to take into account within-study and between-study variance, or otherwise, with a fixed-effects model. To explore sources of [16] Case-control study * * * * * * * 7 Hwang et al [9] Case-control study * * * * * * * 7 Parashar et al [17] Cohort study * * * * * * * * 8 Guenancia et al [8] Case-control study * * * * * * 6 Gal et al [7] Case-control study * * * * * * * * 8 *The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale criteria are listed in supplemental files. heterogeneity, we performed several sensitivity analyses.…”

“…In the past few years, several studies were performed in AF patients and non-AF controls after ACS to evaluate this association. Finally, some studies indicated positive association while others demonstrated negative results [6][7][8][9]. To better clarify the associations of NT-proBNP with new-onset AF after ACS, we conducted a comprehensive metaanalysis by collecting and analyzing previously published studies.…”

A Review of the Relationship of Atrial Fibrillation and Acute Coronary Syndrome

“…Parashar et al found that diabetes was less common in those who developed NAF [57]. A surprising finding was that smoking was less common in those who developed AF [27, 50, 56, 57]. Age was frequently cited as a risk for NAF, which is expected.…”

“…Characteristics that were repeatedly more common in those who developed NAF included female gender [27, 41, 45, 50, 51]), higher Killip Class [27, 52–54], lower LVEF [27, 50–54], diabetes mellitus [27, 50, 55], hypertension, [56, 57], and lower renal function [50, 52, 54–57]. Parashar et al found that diabetes was less common in those who developed NAF [57].…”