Figure 2.

Management options for obesity and their effects on atrial fibrillation risks. Although lifestyle changes and bariatric surgery reduces atrial fibrillation burden in obese patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation, the evidence for surgical weight reduction on mitigating the risk of incident atrial fibrillation is conflicting. Lifestyle changes are likely to reduce incident atrial fibrillation risk. The effects of pharmacological modulation of obesity on incident atrial fibrillation risk and atrial fibrillation burden is not well described