Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and on Dialysis: A Meta-Analysis and Review.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients and is difficult to treat with anti-arrhythmics and anticoagulants due to abnormal metabolism and increased side effects. Catheter ablation, if successful, may be a safer alternative. This review aimed to analyse the effect of CKD or haemodialysis (HD) on recurrence of AF after catheter ablation.

Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death.

Background: The extent to which diabetes mellitus or hyperglycemia is related to risk of death from cancer or other nonvascular conditions is uncertain.

Methods: We calculated hazard ratios for cause-specific death, according to baseline diabetes status or fasting glucose level, from individual-participant data on 123,205 deaths among 820,900 people in 97 prospective studies.

Results: After adjustment for age, sex, smoking status, and body-mass index, hazard ratios among persons with diabetes as compared with persons without diabetes were as follows: 1.