Figure 1.
Flowchart of selection of cases and the random subcohort in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics (Visit 2) in the participants who developed atrial fibrillation (AF) during follow-up and those who did not, ARIC, 1990–1992.
Figure 2.
Association between quartiles of plasma matrix metalloproteinase-9 with incident atrial fibrillation in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
The model is adjusted for age, sex, race, study site, education (high school degree vs. not), smoking (current vs. not), body mass index, physical activity, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive medication, diabetes, C-reactive protein, NT-proBNP, prevalent coronary heart disease, prevalent heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy.
Table 2.
Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) of atrial fibrillation by markers of atrial ECM remodelling, ARIC, 1990–2007.
Table 3.
The relationship between MMP-2 and incident atrial fibrillation modeled by quintiles, ARIC 1990–2007.
Table 4.
Baseline characteristics of individuals dichotomized by whether they had above or below the mean value (271.5 ng/mL) of MMP-9 in the cohort random sample (n = 580).