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Diabetes Increases Risk for Irregular Heart Rhythm in Women
While other studies have found that patients with diabetes are more likely to have AF, this is the first large studyinvolving nearly 35,000 Kaiser Permanente patients over the course of seven yearsto isolate the effect of diabetes and determine that it is an independent risk factor for women.
The most important finding from our study is that women with diabetes have an increased risk of developing this abnormal heart rhythm, said the studys lead author, Greg Nichols, PhD, investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore.
Men with diabetes are also at higher risk, but the association between the two conditions is not as strong. For men, obesity and high blood pressure are bigger risk factors from diabetes. AF is the most common arrhythmia in the world, and diabetes is one of the most common and costly health conditions.
Our study points out that there is a connection between these two growing epidemicsone we should pay closer attention to, especially among women, says Sumeet Chugh, MD, co-author and associate director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles.
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