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Body weight and risk of atrial fibrillation in 7,169 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes; an observational study

Overview of attention for article published in Cardiovascular Diabetology, January 2015
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Title
Body weight and risk of atrial fibrillation in 7,169 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes; an observational study
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Cardiovascular Diabetology, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12933-014-0170-3
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Irene Grundvold, Johan Bodegard, Peter M Nilsson, Bodil Svennblad, Gunnar Johansson, Carl Johan Östgren, Johan Sundström

Abstract

BackgroundObesity, type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation (AF) are closely associated, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. We aimed to explore associations between body mass index (BMI) or weight change with risk of AF in patients with type 2 diabetes.MethodsA total of 7,169 participations with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes were stratified according to baseline BMI, and after a second BMI measurement within 18 months, further grouped according to relative weight change as ¿weight gain¿ (>1 BMI unit), ¿stable weight¿ (+/¿ 1 BMI unit) and ¿weight loss¿ (<1 BMI unit). The mean follow-up period was 4.6 years, and the risk of AF was estimated using adjusted Cox regression models.ResultsAverage age at diabetes diagnosis was 60 years and the patients were slightly obese (mean BMI 30.2 kg/m2). During follow-up, 287 patients developed incident AF, and those with overweight or obesity at baseline had 1.9-fold and 2.9-fold higher risk of AF, respectively, than those with normal BMI. The 14% of the patients with subsequent weight gain had 1.5-fold risk of AF compared with those with stable weight or weight loss.ConclusionsIn patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, baseline overweight and obesity, as well as modest weight increase during the first 18 months after diagnosis, were associated with a substantially increased risk of incident AF. Patients with type 2 diabetes may benefit from efforts to prevent weight gain in order to reduce the risk of incident AF.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01121315.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Egypt 1 1%
Unknown 65 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 16%
Student > Master 10 14%
Researcher 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 4%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 18 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 39%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Engineering 4 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 23 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 02 May 2019.
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