Novel Association between Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation in a Case-Cohort Study: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

• Rachel R. Huxley ,

  * E-mail: rhuxley@umn.edu

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Faye L. Lopez,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Richard F. MacLehose,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• John H. Eckfeldt,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• David Couper,

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Catherine Leiendecker-Foster,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Ron C. Hoogeveen,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lin Yee Chen,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Elsayed Z. Soliman,

  Affiliation Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Sunil K. Agarwal,

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alvaro Alonso

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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