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SUBMITTER: Park YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7563734 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Yoon Jung YJ Yang Pil-Sung PS Yu Hee Tae HT Kim Tae-Hoon TH Jang Eunsun E Uhm Jae-Sun JS Pak Hui-Nam HN Lee Moon-Hyoung MH Lip Gregory Y H GYH Joung Boyoung B
Journal of clinical medicine 20200916 9
Intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering in patients with hypertension at increased risk of cardiovascular disease has been associated with a lowered risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF). It is uncertain whether maintaining the optimal BP levels can prevent AF in the general elderly population. We included 115,866 participants without AF in the Korea National Health Insurance Service-Senior (≥60 years) cohort from 2002 to 2013. We compared the influence of BP on the occurrence of new-onset AF ...[more]