Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia of clinical significance; it increases the risk of mortality due to stroke. The mechanisms behind cerebral thromboembolism in AF are associated with a prothrombotic state, demonstrated by higher levels of von Willebrand Factor (vWF), a multimeric glycoprotein that plays a crucial role in platelet adhesion and aggregation and it has ...

BACKGROUND Increased concentrations of circulating fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) have been associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The association between FGF-23 and the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), a common arrhythmia, is less defined. Thus, we explored whether FGF-23 concentration was associated with AF incidence in a large community-based cohort. METHODS AND RESU...

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar los determinantes del alfabetismo financiero (AF) en México, a través sus componentes: actitud, comportamiento y conocimiento. Se emplearon análisis varianzas modelos logit ordenados, aplicados datos 2018 la Encuesta Nacional Inclusión Financiera (ENIF). confirma que (1) el nivel AF bajo, (2) existe una brecha género (3) educación factor mayor influ...

Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia seen after coronary artery bypass(CABG) surgery. Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels known to have correlation with developement of post operative atrial (POAF) CABG In our study we investigated predictability preoperative HbA1c for postoperative POAF in patients who underwent isolated on-pump operation clinic. Method: We retro...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia. Better prevention and treatment of AF are needed to reduce AF-associated morbidity and mortality. There are several major mechanisms that cause AF in patients, including a genetic predisposition to develop AF. Genome-wide association studies have identified genetic variants associated with AF populations, with the strongest hits clustering on chr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent arrhythmia in elderly patients. Aims of this study were to evaluate the predictors of arterial stiffness after external cardioversion (ECV) of AF and to establish whether a link exists between vascular properties and left atrial diameter (LAD). METHODS We studied 33 patients (age 73 ± 12 years). After 5 h from ECV of persistent...

background: atrial fibrillation (af) is prevalent among cardiac patients; and as the risk of thromboembolism is high in this arrhythmia, discrimination of the effective risk factors in producing left atrial (la) thrombosis is clinically important. the molecular structure of lipoprotein(a) [lp(a)] is very similar to plasminogen , so it can be hypothesized that the high level of lp(a) is a compro...

Although oral anticoagulation can prevent the majority of strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) if used as recommended in treatment guidelines, patients with AF receiving optimal therapy still die prematurely, and are frequently hospitalized. Hence, weneed a deeperunderstanding of the mechanisms behind AF in patients to develop better treatment. Most of the currently used treatments...

Gonadotropin surge-inhibiting/attenuating factor (GnSIF/AF) has been known for over two decades, but its molecular structure has not been completely characterized yet. In the last 20 years, five different putative GnSIF/AF sequences have been published. In this article, we describe a procedure to isolate and characterize GnSIF/AF from bovine follicular fluid. A GnSIF/ AF-derived synthetic pepti...

INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between serum peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) protein concentration and inflammatory markers in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). MATERIAL AND METHODS We enrolled a total of 73 elderly patients: 45 with AF as the test group and 28 in sinus rhythm as a control group. We assayed serum PPAR-γ...