Activated inflammation is related to the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1467-1471

  Yoshizaki, Tohru ^a   Umetani, Ken ^a   Ino, Yuri ^a   Takahashi, Souichirou ^a   Nakamura, Masahiko ^a   Seto, Toshikuni ^a   Aizawa, Kazunori ^a  

^a Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Atrial fibrillation; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862989839     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7312     Document Type: Article

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