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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2010 Jun 17;3(4):345–350. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.109.912055

Table 2.

Associations between Regional Fat Deposits and Prevalent AF

Age- and sex-adjusted P AF risk factor-adjusted† P +BMI-adjusted P +Fat deposit-adjusted* P
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Pericardial 1.30 (1.05–1.60) 0.02 1.28 (1.03–1.58) 0.03 1.28 (1.01–1.63) 0.04 1.37 (1.02–1.85) 0.04
Intra-thoracic 1.12 (0.85–1.49) 0.41 1.13 (0.85–1.52) 0.4 1.09 (0.78–1.52) 0.61 0.85 (0.55–1.30) 0.45
Visceral Fat 0.97 (0.74–1.28) 0.84 0.97 (0.72–1.29) 0.82 0.83 (0.57–1.21) 0.34 - -
†

Adjusted for the following covariates: age, sex, systolic blood pressure, blood pressure treatment, PR interval, clinically significant valvular disease (defined as ≥ grade 3 systolic murmur or any diastolic murmur).

*

fat-deposit adjusted model included both pericardial and intrathoracic fat and was adjusted for all other covariates in the AF-risk adjusted model (including BMI).