Atrial fibrillation (AF), the commonest arrhythmia, shows associations with various disease
conditions. Mounting evidence indicates that atrial fibrosis is an important part of the …

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, affecting a wide range
of patients at different stages across the cardiovascular continuum. Hypertension is one of …

Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta …

The present guidelines are a revision of the 2008 version of Guidelines for
Pharmacotherapy of Atrial Fibrillation, 1 which were originally published in 2001, 2 and …

Platelets are the second most abundant cell type in blood and are essential for maintaining
haemostasis. Their count and volume are tightly controlled within narrow physiological …

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 …

Objectives: This study sought to identify nonredundant atrial fibrillation (AF) genetic
susceptibility signals and examine their cumulative relations with AF risk. Background: AF …

Importance Little is known about the comparative cardiovascular safety of oral hormone
therapy products, which impedes women from making informed safety decisions about …

Aims Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia frequently associated with hypertension.
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that lowering blood pressure by angiotensin …

In a recent genome-wide association study, variants in 8 genes were associated with VWF
level, a risk factor for venous thrombosis (VT). In an independent, population-based, case …