Concomitant Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Add to the Atrial Arrhythmogenic Phenotype in Male Hypertensive Rats

Concomitant Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Add to the Atrial Arrhythmogenic Phenotype in Male Hypertensive Rats

BackgroundBesides hypertension, obesity and the metabolic syndrome have recently emerged as risk factors for atrial fibrillation. This study sought to delineate the development of an arrhythmogenic substrate for atrial fibrillation in hypertension with and without concomitant obesity and metabolic s...

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Main Authors: Mathias Hohl, Dennis H. Lau, Andreas Müller, Adrian D. Elliott, Benedikt Linz, Rajiv Mahajan, Jeroen M. L. Hendriks, Michael Böhm, Ulrich Schotten, Prashanthan Sanders, Dominik Linz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
atrial fibrillation
hypertension
metabolic syndrome
obesity
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.006717

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