Increased pulse pressure independently predicts incident atrial fibrillation in patients with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2337-2339

  Valbusa, Filippo ^a   Bonapace, Stefano ^a   Bertolini, Lorenzo ^a   Zenari, Luciano ^a   Arcaro, Guido ^a   Targher, Giovanni ^b  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84868093056     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-0314     Document Type: Article

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