The effect of angiotensin receptor blockers for preventing atrial fibrillation. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice, and causes significant burden to patients and health care systems. Clinicians treat existing atrial fibrillation with anticoagulation and/or drugs that utilize either a rate or rhythm control strategy. It remains unclear how best to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in this population. Prevention of atrial fibrillation using angiotensin receptor blockers, which affect ion currents and refractoriness in atrial myocytes, regress or prevent atrial fibrosis, decrease left atrial size, regress left ventricular hypertrophy, modulate sympathetic nerve activity, reduce inflammation, and reduce blood pressure, may become an important and desirable alternative.

publication date

  • August 1, 2007

Research

keywords

  • Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Primary Prevention

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 34548544240

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s11906-007-0051-1

PubMed ID

  • 17686377

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 9

issue

  • 4