NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE IS ASSOCIATED WITH ONSET OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AT A YOUNGER AGE: A NATIONWIDE STUDY

Methods This is a retrospective cohort study using the 2004 - 2014 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) of adult patients hospitalized with AF as the admitting diagnosis, and NAFLD as the secondary diagnosis based on ICD-9 codes. Multivariate logistic regression was used to adjust for potential confounde...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 71; no. 11; p. A516
Main Authors Gholitabar, Farid, Lee, Shawn, Bakir, May, Dehkordi, Seyed Hamed Hosseini, Ahsan, Syed, Lemor, Alejandro, Mehta, Davendra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 10.03.2018
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Age
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Fatty liver
Fibrillation
Liver
Liver diseases
Mortality
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Summary:Methods This is a retrospective cohort study using the 2004 - 2014 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) of adult patients hospitalized with AF as the admitting diagnosis, and NAFLD as the secondary diagnosis based on ICD-9 codes. Multivariate logistic regression was used to adjust for potential confounders including age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, Charlson Comorbidity Index, hospital location, hospital region, teaching status, and hospital size.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/S0735-1097(18)31057-X