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Obesity, Physical Activity, and Their Interaction in Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Postmenopausal Women

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, August 2014
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Title
Obesity, Physical Activity, and Their Interaction in Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Postmenopausal Women
Published in
Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, August 2014
DOI 10.1161/jaha.114.001127
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Authors

Farnaz Azarbal, Marcia L. Stefanick, Elena Salmoirago‐Blotcher, JoAnn E. Manson, Christine M. Albert, Michael J. LaMonte, Joseph C. Larson, Wenjun Li, Lisa W. Martin, Rami Nassir, Lorena Garcia, Themistocles L. Assimes, Katie M. Tharp, Mark A. Hlatky, Marco V. Perez

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with increased risk of stroke and death. Obesity is an independent risk factor for AF, but modifiers of this risk are not well known. We studied the roles of obesity, physical activity, and their interaction in conferring risk of incident AF. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study was a prospective observational study of 93 676 postmenopausal women followed for an average of 11.5 years. Incident AF was identified using WHI-ascertained hospitalization records and diagnostic codes from Medicare claims. A multivariate Cox's hazard regression model adjusted for demographic and clinical risk factors was used to evaluate the interaction between obesity and physical activity and its association with incident AF. After exclusion of women with prevalent AF, incomplete data, or underweight body mass index (BMI), 9792 of the remaining 81 317 women developed AF. Women were, on average, 63.4 years old, 7.8% were African American, and 3.6% were Hispanic. Increased BMI (hazard ratio [HR], 1.12 per 5-kg/m(2) increase; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 1.14) and reduced physical activity (>9 vs. 0 metabolic equivalent task hours per week; HR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.85 to 0.96) were independently associated with higher rates of AF after multivariate adjustment. Higher levels of physical activity reduced the AF risk conferred by obesity (interaction P=0.033). Greater physical activity is associated with lower rates of incident AF and modifies the association between obesity and incident AF.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 1%
Unknown 139 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 25 18%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 11%
Researcher 13 9%
Student > Postgraduate 7 5%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 40 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Sports and Recreations 3 2%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 47 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2020.
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#1,001,681
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Outputs from Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
#925
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#9,821
of 247,014 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
#6
of 67 outputs
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