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low carb diet & AFIB – part 2

Posted on 2019-05-152019-05-18 by Sameer Oza

Here is another substudy of the ARIC study published last week.

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13,385 patients were followed for 22.4 years. An increase of 9.4% in carbohydrate intake (corresponding to 1 standard deviation) was associated with an 18% lower rate of incident AF.

Kaplan-Meier curve of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) by quartiles of carbohydrate intake as a percentage of energy.
Kaplan‐Meier curve of incident atrial fibrillation (AF) by quartiles of carbohydrate intake as a percentage of energy.

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