Association of Heart Rate With Troponin Levels Among Patients With Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation

Jussi-Pekka Pouru; Samuli Jaakkola; Fausto Biancari; Tuomas O Kiviniemi; Ilpo Nuotio; K E Juhani Airaksinen

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16880

Association of Heart Rate With Troponin Levels Among Patients With Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Sep 1;3(9):e2016880. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16880.

Authors

Jussi-Pekka Pouru¹, Samuli Jaakkola¹, Fausto Biancari^{1

2

3}, Tuomas O Kiviniemi¹, Ilpo Nuotio^{1

4}, K E Juhani Airaksinen¹

Affiliations

¹ Heart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
² Research Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
³ Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Department of Acute Internal Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Abstract

This cohort study investigates heart rate and cardiac troponin levels in patients admitted to the emergency department with symptomatic atrial fibrillation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Atrial Fibrillation / blood*
Atrial Fibrillation / complications
Atrial Fibrillation / physiopathology*
Cohort Studies
Coronary Artery Disease / blood
Coronary Artery Disease / complications
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Finland
Heart Rate*
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Troponin T / blood*

Substances

TNNT2 protein, human
Troponin T