Parveen K Garg, Weihua Guan, Sarah Nomura, Natalie L Weir, Nathan Tintle, Jyrki K Virtanen, Yoichiro Hirakawa, Frank Qian, Qi Sun, Eric Rimm, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Paul N Jensen, Susan R Heckbert, Fumiaki Imamura, Marinka Steur, Karin Leander, Federica Laguzzi, Trudy Voortman, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Dariush Mozaffarian, William S Harris, David S Siscovick, Michael Y Tsai
BACKGROUND: The presence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an over 2-fold increased risk of stroke, heart failure, and cardiovascular mortality. Long chain n-6 PUFAs have been suggested to have a variety of beneficial biologic effects that may reduce AF development; however, prior studies evaluating this relationship are limited. OBJECTIVES: We prospectively evaluated the association between circulating levels of linoleic acid (LA) and arachidonic acid (AA) with incident AF...
November 2023: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition