Breast arterial calcification is associated with incident atrial fibrillation among older but not younger post-menopausal women.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The goal of this study was to examine the association of breast arterial calcification (BAC) presence and quantity with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) in a large cohort of post-menopausal women.

Methods and results

We conducted a longitudinal cohort study among women free of clinically overt cardiovascular disease and AF at baseline (between October 2012 and February 2015) when they attended mammography screening. Atrial fibrillation incidence was ascertained using diagnostic codes and natural language processing. Among 4908 women, 354 incident cases of AF (7%) were ascertained after a mean (standard deviation) of 7 (2) years of follow-up. In Cox regression adjusting for a propensity score for BAC, BAC presence vs. absence was not significantly associated with AF [ha

SUBMITTER: Iribarren C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature