Background Diabetes and elevated blood glucose have been associated with increased risk
of atrial fibrillation in a number of epidemiological studies, however, the findings have not …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is 1 of the most clinically diagnosed cardiac disturbances but little is
known about its risk factors. Previous epidemiologic studies have reported on the …

Aim Diabetes has been associated with atrial fibrillation but the current evidence is
conflicting. In particular knowledge regarding young diabetes patients and the risk of …

OBJECTIVE Diabetes has long been recognized as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation, but its
independent contribution to atrial fibrillation has not been fully evaluated. We sought to …

Background Type 2 diabetes has been inconsistently associated with the risk of atrial
fibrillation (AF) in previous studies that have frequently been beset by methodological …

BACKGROUND Diabetes may be an independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation. However,
results from prior studies are in conflict, and no study has examined diabetes duration or …

Background Type 1 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of developing several
cardiovascular complications. To our knowledge, the independent association between type …

Background To examine the incidence of atrial fibrillation in individuals with type 2 diabetes
compared with age-and sex-matched controls from the general population and its variation …

In conclusion, the association between AF and DM has been proved both in epidemiology
and experimental studies. The causal links need to be verified in large cohort study. A recent …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic conditions and its prevalence
has increased continuously over the past decades, primarily due to the obesity epidemic …