Prevalence of abnormal glucose metabolism in atrial fibrillation: a case control study in 75-year old subjects.

Background: The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasing world wide and amongst factors that aggravate the risk is diabetes mellitus (DM), also in epidemic development.However, although DM is a potentially modifiable risk factor for AF, few, if any, studies have explored the prevalence of undiagnosed dysglycaemia among subjects with AF or if duration of AF are related to parameters of glycaemia or dysglycaemia prevalence.

Methods: In this case control study, amongst 75-year old subjects with and without AF, the prevalence of dysglycaemia, i.