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Occult atrial fibrillation in endurance athletes

Authors Aggarwal A, Heslop JJ, Wigant RR, Venkatapuram S, Hillis SJ , Parr AR, Oral H, Baman TS

Received 22 August 2017

Accepted for publication 8 October 2017

Published 14 November 2017 Volume 2017:8 Pages 227—229

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OAJSM.S149694

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Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Prof. Dr. Andreas Imhoff



Ashim Aggarwal,1 Jeffrey J Heslop,1 Rebecca R Wigant,1 Suneetha Venkatapuram,1 Stephanie J Hillis,1 Alan R Parr,1 Hakan Oral,2 Timir S Baman1

1Cardiology Department, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, IL, USA; 2Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Although low-to-moderate intensity exercise has been shown to result in decreased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, limited data suggest that there may be an association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and trained endurance athletes.1 The aim of our study was to prospectively evaluate moderately trained athletes for the occurrence of occult AF.

Acknowledgment

Funding for this study was received from Medtronic Ltd.

Disclosure

The authors received no payment for conducting this study. The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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