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Originally Posted by
mschwett
there are so many studies on exercise and aFib. this is a good meta study among the many
https://academic.oup.com/europace/ar...uestAccessKey=
approximately 5 times the risk for aFib! the study on cyclists specifically is kind of interesting, it compared actual former professional cyclists to golfers of similar age and other characteristics.
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a...9/1/71/2398434
unfortunately the study did not correct for the fact that golf is a horrible, horrible thing to spend your time doing and anyone who has ever ridden a road bike would rather be an aFib-ridden-cyclist than a stable-sinus-rhythm-golfer.
Well, and they were not just cyclists, they were former professional cyclists - one selection criterion being competing at least once in the Tour de Suisse!
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