American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 6 , Pages 844-848 , 15 March 2010

Dietary Fish Intake and Incident Atrial Fibrillation (from the Women's Health Initiative)

This study was presented at the Heart Rhythm Society, May 15, 2008, San Francisco, California.

  • Jarett D. Berry, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel: (214) 645-7500; fax: (214) 645-7501
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  • Ronald J. Prineas, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winstom-Salem, North Carolina
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  • Linda van Horn, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Rod Passman, MD, MSCE

      Affiliations

    • Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Joseph Larson, MS

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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  • Jeffrey Goldberger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Linda Snetselaar, RD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Community and Behavioral Health and Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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  • Lesley Tinker, PhD, RD

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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  • Kiang Liu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
    • Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

Received 23 July 2009 ,Revised 6 November 2009 ,Accepted 6 November 2009.

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 Dr. Berry is currently funded by grant K23 HL092229 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and by the Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care endowment at University of Texas Southwestern. Dr. Lloyd-Jones is supported in part by grants R21HL085375 and R01HL086792-02 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

 The Women's Health Initiative program was funded by the National Heart, and Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland.The funding organization had representation on the Steering Committee, which governed the design and conduct of the study, the interpretation of the data, and the preparation and approval of the manuscript.

PII: S0002-9149(09)02761-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.11.039

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 6 , Pages 844-848 , 15 March 2010

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