Yong-Moon Mark Park, Wonyoung Jung, Yohwan Yeo, Sang Hyun Park, Michael G Fradley, Sindhu J Malapati, Tushar Tarun, Vinay Raj, Hong Seok Lee, Tasneem Z Naqvi, Ronda S Henry-Tillman, Jawahar L Mehta, Mario Schootman, Benjamin C Amick, Kyungdo Han, Dong Wook Shin
BACKGROUND: The risk of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) among breast cancer survivors, especially for younger women, and cancer treatment effects on the association remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the risk of AF among breast cancer survivors and evaluate the association by age group, length of follow-up, and cancer treatment. METHODS: Using data from the Korean Health Insurance Service database (2010-2017), 113,232 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer (aged ≥ 18 years) without prior AF history who underwent breast cancer surgery were individually matched 1:5 by birth year to a sample female population without cancer (n = 566,160) (mean[SD] follow-up, 5...
February 28, 2024: BMC Medicine