Echocardiographic Measures of Cardiac Structure and Function Are Associated with Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Blacks: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

• Wobo Bekwelem ,

  * E-mail: bekwe001@umn.edu

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Jeffrey R. Misialek,

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

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• Suma Konety,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Scott D. Solomon,

  Affiliation Department of Noninvasive Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Elsayed Z. Soliman,

  Affiliation Epicare, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Laura R. Loehr,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 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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• Ervin R. Fox,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Thomas H. Mosley,

  Affiliation Division of Geriatrics, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 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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