Association Between Leukocyte Telomere Length and the Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study

Association Between Leukocyte Telomere Length and the Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study

BackgroundAdvancing age is a prominent risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF). Shorter telomere length is a biomarker of biological aging, but the link between shorter telomere length and increased risk of AF remains unclear. We examined the association between shorter leukocyte telomere length (L...

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Main Authors: Laila Staerk, Biqi Wang, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Robert H. Helm, Darae Ko, Jason A. Sherer, Patrick T. Ellinor, Steven A. Lubitz, David D. McManus, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Emelia J. Benjamin, Ludovic Trinquart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
aging
atrial fibrillation
biomarker
epidemiology
telomere genetics
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.006541

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