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Concomitant Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Add to the Atrial Arrhythmogenic Phenotype in Male Hypertensive Rats.
Journal of the American Heart Association - 17 Sept 2017
Hohl Mathias, Lau Dennis H, Müller Andreas, Elliott Adrian D, Linz Benedikt, Mahajan Rajiv, Hendriks Jeroen M L, Böhm Michael, Schotten Ulrich, Sanders Prashanthan, Linz Dominik
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BACKGROUND: Besides hypertension, obesity and the metabolic syndrome have recently emerged as risk factors for atrial fibrillation. This study sought to delineate the development of an arrhythmogenic substrate for atrial fibrillation in hypertension with and without concomitant obesity and metabolic syndrome. METHODS AND RESULTS: We compared obese spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR-obese, n=7-10) with lean...
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