The high prevalence of both non-aspirin NSAID use and atrial fibrillation makes an
association between these two variables of considerable clinical and public-health
importance. Previously, only two studies had examined the effect of selective COX-2
inhibitors on the risk of atrial fibrillation [
1
,
2
]. Therefore we read with great interest the study by Chao et al. [
[3]
], which concluded “new NSAID use may predispose patients to atrial fibrillation but
use of selective COX-2 inhibitors was not significantly related to atrial fibrillation
occurrence, except in patients with chronic kidney or pulmonary disease”.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: October 07, 2014
Accepted:
September 30,
2014
Received:
September 30,
2014
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