PMC:99044 / 9270-10003 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/99044","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"99044","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/99044","text":"Table 3 shows the effect of several factors on the mortality risk in the cohort of chronic AF patients. The mortality risk increased remarkably with advancing age. Smokers carried a relative risk of dying close to threefold. Diabetes, heart failure and cerebrovascular disease were all associated with estimates of RR between 1.5 and 2. Ischaemic heart disease was the strongest clinical predictor of mortality with a RR of 3.0 (95% CI; 2.1–4.1). We did not find any significant association between alcohol consumption and mortality. Overweight patients (BMI of 30 or more) had a relative risk of 0.5 (95%CI: 0.3–0.9) compared to subjects with a BMI between 22 and 25 after adjusting for age, sex, smoking and preexisting conditions.","tracks":[]}