Furberg CD, Psaty BM, Manolio TA, Gardin JM, Smith VE, Rautaharju PM. Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects (the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol. 1994  ;74(3):236-41.

Rautaharju PM, Manolio TA, Furberg CD, Siscovick D, Newman AB, Borhani NO, Gardin JM. Ischemic episodes in 24-h ambulatory electrocardiograms of elderly persons: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Int J Cardiol. 1995  ;51(2):165-75.

Psaty BM, Manolio TA, Kuller LH, Kronmal RA, Cushman M, Fried LP, White R, Furberg CD, Rautaharju PM. Incidence of and risk factors for atrial fibrillation in older adults. Circulation. 1997  ;96(7):2455-61.

White RH, McBurnie MA, Manolio T, Furberg CD, Gardin JM, Kittner SJ, Bovill E, Knepper L. Oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation: adherence with guidelines in an elderly cohort. Am J Med. 1999  ;106(2):165-71.

Feinberg WM, Kronmal RA, Newman AB, Kraut MA, Bovill EG, Cooper L, Hart RG. Stroke risk in an elderly population with atrial fibrillation. J Gen Intern Med. 1999  ;14(1):56-9.

Smith NL, Psaty BM, Furberg CD, White R, Lima JA, Newman AB, Manolio TA. Temporal trends in the use of anticoagulants among older adults with atrial fibrillation. Arch Intern Med. 1999  ;159(14):1574-8.

Aviles RJ, Martin DO, Apperson-Hansen C, Houghtaling PL, Rautaharju P, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP, Van Wagoner DR, Psaty BM, Lauer MS, et al. Inflammation as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2003  ;108(24):3006-10.

Mozaffarian D, Psaty BM, Rimm EB, Lemaitre RN, Burke GL, Lyles MF, Lefkowitz D, Siscovick DS. Fish intake and risk of incident atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2004  ;110(4):368-73.

Rhoads CS, Psaty BM, Olson JL, Furberg CD. Medications and cardiovascular health in older adults: room for improvement in prevention and treatment. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2004  ;13(3):161-7.

Patwardhan AA, Larson MG, Levy D, Benjamin EJ, Leip EP, Keyes MJ, Wang TJ, Gottlieb DJ, Vasan RS. Obstructive sleep apnea and plasma natriuretic peptide levels in a community-based sample. Sleep. 2006  ;29(10):1301-6.

Cappola AR, Fried LP, Arnold AM, Danese MD, Kuller LH, Burke GL, Tracy RP, Ladenson PW. Thyroid status, cardiovascular risk, and mortality in older adults. JAMA. 2006  ;295(9):1033-41.

Mukamal KJ, Psaty BM, Rautaharju PM, Furberg CD, Kuller LH, Mittleman MA, Gottdiener JS, Siscovick DS. Alcohol consumption and risk and prognosis of atrial fibrillation among older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Am Heart J. 2007  ;153(2):260-6.

Mozaffarian D, Furberg CD, Psaty BM, Siscovick D. Physical activity and incidence of atrial fibrillation in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. Circulation. 2008  ;118(8):800-7.

Patton KK, Ellinor PT, Heckbert SR, Christenson RH, DeFilippi C, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide is a major predictor of the development of atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2009  ;120(18):1768-74.

Benjamin EJ, Rice KM, Arking DE, Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Smith AV, Schnabel RB, Bis JC, Boerwinkle E, Sinner MF, et al. Variants in ZFHX3 are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry. Nat Genet. 2009  ;41(8):879-81.

Ellinor PT, Lunetta KL, Glazer NL, Pfeufer A, Alonso A, Chung MK, Sinner MF, de Bakker PIW, Mueller M, Lubitz SA, et al. Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation. Nat Genet. 2010  ;42(3):240-4.

Marcus GM, Alonso A, Peralta CA, Lettre G, Vittinghoff E, Lubitz SA, Fox ER, Levitzky YS, Mehra R, Kerr KF, et al. European ancestry as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation in African Americans. Circulation. 2010  ;122(20):2009-15.

Pfeufer A, van Noord C, Marciante KD, Arking DE, Larson MG, Smith AVernon, Tarasov KV, Müller M, Sotoodehnia N, Sinner MF, et al. Genome-wide association study of PR interval. Nat Genet. 2010  ;42(2):153-9.

Deo R, Katz R, Kestenbaum B, Fried L, Sarnak MJ, Psaty BM, Siscovick DS, Shlipak MG. Impaired kidney function and atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects. J Card Fail. 2010  ;16(1):55-60.

Lubitz SA, Sinner MF, Lunetta KL, Makino S, Pfeufer A, Rahman R, Veltman CE, Barnard J, Bis JC, Danik SP, et al. Independent susceptibility markers for atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25. Circulation. 2010  ;122(10):976-84.

Schnabel RB, Aspelund T, Li G, Sullivan LM, Suchy-Dicey A, Harris TB, Pencina MJ, D'Agostino RB, Levy D, Kannel WB, et al. Validation of an atrial fibrillation risk algorithm in whites and African Americans. Arch Intern Med. 2010  ;170(21):1909-17.

Schnabel RB, Kerr KF, Lubitz SA, Alkylbekova EL, Marcus GM, Sinner MF, Magnani JW, Wolf PA, Deo R, Lloyd-Jones DM, et al. Large-scale candidate gene analysis in whites and African Americans identifies IL6R polymorphism in relation to atrial fibrillation: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) project. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2011  ;4(5):557-64.

H Y Wu J, Lemaitre RN, King IB, Song X, Sacks FM, Rimm EB, Heckbert SR, Siscovick DS, Mozaffarian D. Association of plasma phospholipid long-chain ?-3 fatty acids with incident atrial fibrillation in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. Circulation. 2012  ;125(9):1084-93.

Rosenberg MA, Gottdiener JS, Heckbert SR, Mukamal KJ. Echocardiographic diastolic parameters and risk of atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Eur Heart J. 2012  ;33(7):904-12.

Rosenberg MA, Patton KK, Sotoodehnia N, Karas MG, Kizer JR, Zimetbaum PJ, Chang JD, Siscovick D, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA, et al. The impact of height on the risk of atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Eur Heart J. 2012  ;33(21):2709-17.

Ellinor PT, Lunetta KL, Albert CM, Glazer NL, Ritchie MD, Smith AV, Arking DE, Müller-Nurasyid M, Krijthe BP, Lubitz SA, et al. Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation. Nat Genet. 2012  ;44(6):670-5.

Khawaja O, Bartz TM, Ix JH, Heckbert SR, Kizer JR, Zieman SJ, Mukamal KJ, Tracy RP, Siscovick DS, Djoussé L. Plasma free fatty acids and risk of atrial fibrillation (from the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol. 2012  ;110(2):212-6.

Collet T-H, Gussekloo J, Bauer DC, Elzen WPJ den, Cappola AR, Balmer P, Iervasi G, Asvold BO, Sgarbi JA, Völzke H, et al. Subclinical hyperthyroidism and the risk of coronary heart disease and mortality. Arch Intern Med. 2012  ;172(10):799-809.

Fretts AM, Mozaffarian D, Siscovick DS, Heckbert SR, McKnight B, King IB, Rimm EB, Psaty BM, Sacks FM, Song X, et al. Associations of plasma phospholipid and dietary alpha linolenic acid with incident atrial fibrillation in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013  ;2(1):e003814.

Dewland TA, Vittinghoff E, Mandyam MC, Heckbert SR, Siscovick DS, Stein PK, Psaty BM, Sotoodehnia N, Gottdiener JS, Marcus GM. Atrial ectopy as a predictor of incident atrial fibrillation: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2013  ;159(11):721-8.

Thacker EL, McKnight B, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT, Sitlani CM, Dublin S, Arnold AM, Fitzpatrick AL, Gottesman RF, Heckbert SR. Atrial fibrillation and cognitive decline: a longitudinal cohort study. Neurology. 2013  ;81(2):119-25.

Chen LY, Sotoodehnia N, B?zková P, Lopez FL, Yee LM, Heckbert SR, Prineas R, Soliman EZ, Adabag S, Konety S, et al. Atrial fibrillation and the risk of sudden cardiac death: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study and cardiovascular health study. JAMA Intern Med. 2013  ;173(1):29-35.

Mandyam MC, Soliman EZ, Heckbert SR, Vittinghoff E, Marcus GM. Long-term outcomes of left anterior fascicular block in the absence of overt cardiovascular disease. JAMA. 2013  ;309(15):1587-8.

Mandyam MC, Soliman EZ, Alonso A, Dewland TA, Heckbert SR, Vittinghoff E, Cummings SR, Ellinor PT, Chaitman BR, Stocke K, et al. The QT interval and risk of incident atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2013  ;10(10):1562-8.

Jensen PN, Thacker EL, Dublin S, Psaty BM, Heckbert SR. Racial differences in the incidence of and risk factors for atrial fibrillation in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013  ;61(2):276-80.

Alonso A, Krijthe BP, Aspelund T, Stepas KA, Pencina MJ, Moser CB, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Fontes JD, A Janssens CJW, et al. Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013  ;2(2):e000102.

Sinner MF, Stepas KA, Moser CB, Krijthe BP, Aspelund T, Sotoodehnia N, Fontes JD, A Janssens CJW, Kronmal RA, Magnani JW, et al. B-type natriuretic peptide and C-reactive protein in the prediction of atrial fibrillation risk: the CHARGE-AF Consortium of community-based cohort studies. Europace. 2014  ;16(10):1426-33.

Rosenberg MA, Maziarz M, Tan AY, Glazer NL, Zieman SJ, Kizer JR, Ix JH, Djoussé L, Siscovick DS, Heckbert SR, et al. Circulating fibrosis biomarkers and risk of atrial fibrillation: The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Am Heart J. 2014  ;167(5):723-8.e2.

Ilkhanoff L, Arking DE, Lemaitre RN, Alonso A, Chen LY, Durda P, Hesselson SE, Kerr KF, Magnani JW, Marcus GM, et al. A common SCN5A variant is associated with PR interval and atrial fibrillation among African Americans. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2014  ;25(11):1150-7.

Mathew JS, Sachs MC, Katz R, Patton KK, Heckbert SR, Hoofnagle AN, Alonso A, Chonchol M, Deo R, Ix JH, et al. Fibroblast growth factor-23 and incident atrial fibrillation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). Circulation. 2014  ;130(4):298-307.

Rosenberg MA, Kaplan RC, Siscovick DS, Psaty BM, Heckbert SR, Newton-Cheh C, Mukamal KJ. Genetic variants related to height and risk of atrial fibrillation: the cardiovascular health study. Am J Epidemiol. 2014  ;180(2):215-22.

Sinner MF, Tucker NR, Lunetta KL, Ozaki K, J Smith G, Trompet S, Bis JC, Lin H, Chung MK, Nielsen JB, et al. Integrating genetic, transcriptional, and functional analyses to identify 5 novel genes for atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2014  ;130(15):1225-35.

Malik R, Bevan S, Nalls MA, Holliday EG, Devan WJ, Cheng Y-C, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Verhaaren BFJ, Bis JC, Joon AY, et al. Multilocus genetic risk score associates with ischemic stroke in case-control and prospective cohort studies. Stroke. 2014  ;45(2):394-402.

Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, Lin H, Arking DE, Trompet S, Li G, Krijthe BP, Chasman DI, Barnard J, Kleber ME, et al. Novel genetic markers associate with atrial fibrillation risk in Europeans and Japanese. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014  ;63(12):1200-10.

Fretts AM, Mozaffarian D, Siscovick DS, Djoussé L, Heckbert SR, King IB, McKnight B, Sitlani C, Sacks FM, Song X, et al. Plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014  ;3(3):e000889.

Lin H, Sinner MF, Brody JA, Arking DE, Lunetta KL, Rienstra M, Lubitz SA, Magnani JW, Sotoodehnia N, McKnight B, et al. Targeted sequencing in candidate genes for atrial fibrillation: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Targeted Sequencing Study. Heart Rhythm. 2014  ;11(3):452-7.

Roberts JD, Dewland TA, Longoria J, Fitzpatrick AL, Ziv E, Hu D, Lin J, Glidden DV, Psaty BM, Burchard EG, et al. Telomere length and the risk of atrial fibrillation: insights into the role of biological versus chronological aging. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2014  ;7(6):1026-32.

Kamel H, Bartz TM, Longstreth WT, Okin PM, Thacker EL, Patton KK, Stein PK, Gottesman RF, Heckbert SR, Kronmal RA, et al. Association between left atrial abnormality on ECG and vascular brain injury on MRI in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 2015  ;46(3):711-6.

Murad K, Goff DC, Morgan TM, Burke GL, Bartz TM, Kizer JR, Chaudhry SI, Gottdiener JS, Kitzman DW. Burden of Comorbidities and Functional and Cognitive Impairments in Elderly Patients at the Initial Diagnosis of Heart Failure and Their Impact on Total Mortality: The Cardiovascular Health Study. JACC Heart Fail. 2015  ;3(7):542-50.

Macheret F, Bartz TM, Djoussé L, Ix JH, Mukamal KJ, Zieman SJ, Siscovick DS, Tracy RP, Heckbert SR, Psaty BM, et al. Higher circulating adiponectin levels are associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation in older adults. Heart. 2015  ;101(17):1368-74.

Hussein AA, Bartz TM, Gottdiener JS, Sotoodehnia N, Heckbert SR, Lloyd-Jones D, Kizer JR, Christenson R, Wazni O, DeFilippi C. Serial measures of cardiac troponin T levels by a highly sensitive assay and incident atrial fibrillation in a prospective cohort of ambulatory older adults. Heart Rhythm. 2015  ;12(5):879-85.

Cappola AR, Arnold AM, Wulczyn K, Carlson M, Robbins J, Psaty BM. Thyroid function in the euthyroid range and adverse outcomes in older adults. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015  ;100(3):1088-96.

Kwon Y, Norby FL, Jensen PN, Agarwal SK, Soliman EZ, Lip GYH, Longstreth WT, Alonso A, Heckbert SR, Chen LY. Association of Smoking, Alcohol, and Obesity with Cardiovascular Death and Ischemic Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study and Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). PLoS One. 2016  ;11(1):e0147065.

Wallace ER, Siscovick DS, Sitlani CM, Dublin S, Mitchell PH, Odden MC, Hirsch CH, Thielke S, Heckbert SR. Incident Atrial Fibrillation and Disability-Free Survival in the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016  ;64(4):838-43.

Baumgartner C, da Costa BR, Collet T-H, Feller M, Floriani C, Bauer DC, Cappola AR, Heckbert SR, Ceresini G, Gussekloo J, et al. Thyroid Function Within the Normal Range, Subclinical Hypothyroidism, and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation. 2017  ;136(22):2100-2116.

Roberts JD, Vittinghoff E, Lu AT, Alonso A, Wang B, Sitlani CM, Mohammadi-Shemirani P, Fornage M, Kornej J, Brody JA, et al. Epigenetic Age and the Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation. 2021  ;144(24):1899-1911.

Goudis C, Daios S, Dimitriadis F, Liu T. CHARGE-AF: A Useful Score For Atrial Fibrillation Prediction?. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2023  ;19(2):e010922208402.

Noubiap JJacques, Thomas G, Kamtchum-Tatuene J, Middeldorp ME, Sanders P. High-risk carotid plaques and incident ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Eur J Neurol. 2023  ;30(7):2042-2050.

Jonmundsson T, Steindorsdottir AE, Austin TR, Frick EA, Axelsson GT, Launer L, Psaty BM, Loureiro J, Orth AP, Aspelund T, et al. A proteomic analysis of atrial fibrillation in a prospective longitudinal cohort (AGES-Reykjavik study). Europace. 2023  ;25(11).

Roselli C, Surakka I, Olesen MS, Sveinbjornsson G, Marston NA, Choi SHoan, Holm H, Chaffin M, Gudbjartsson D, Hill MC, et al. Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases. Nat Genet. 2025  ;57(3):539-547.

Choi SHoan, Jurgens SJ, Xiao L, Hill MC, Haggerty CM, Sveinbjörnsson G, Morrill VN, Marston NA, Weng L-C, Pirruccello JP, et al. Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk. Nat Genet. 2025  ;57(3):548-562.