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Low Serum Thyrotropin Concentrations as a Risk Factor for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Persons

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1994

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Clark T. Sawin, Andrew S. Geller, Philip A. Wolf, Albert J. Belanger, Errol Baker, Pamela Bacharach, Peter W.F. Wilson, Emelia J. Benjamin, Ralph B. D’Agostino
New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

Among people 60 years of age or older, a low serum thyrotropin concentration is associated with a threefold higher risk that atrial fibrillation will develop in the subsequent decade.

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