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Use of Scandinavian Moist Smokeless Tobacco (Snus) and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
Stockholm Cty Council, Dept Communicable Dis Control, S-11891 Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska Inst, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska Inst, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stockholm Cty Council, Ctr Epidemiol & Community Med, S-11891 Stockholm, Sweden.
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2014 (English)In: EPIDEMIOLOGY, ISSN 1044-3983, Vol. 25, no 6, p. 872-876Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background: Snus is a smokeless tobacco product, widely used among Swedish men and increasingly so elsewhere. There is debate as to whether snus is an acceptable "harm-reduction" tobacco product. Since snus use delivers a dose of nicotine equivalent to cigarettes, and has been implicated in cardiac arrhythmia because of associations with sudden cardiovascular death, a relation with atrial fibrillation is plausible and important to investigate. Methods: To assess the relation between use of snus and risk of atrial fibrillation, we carried out a pooled analysis of 7 prospective Swedish cohort studies. In total, 274,882 men, recruited between 1978 and 2004, were followed via the National Patient Register for atrial fibrillation. Primary analyses were restricted to 127,907 never-smokers. Relative risks were estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression. Results: The prevalence of snus use was 25% among never-smokers. During follow-up, 3,069 cases of atrial fibrillation were identified. The pooled relative risk of atrial fibrillation was 1.07 (95% confidence interval = 0.97-1.19) in current snus users, compared with nonusers. Conclusion: Findings from this large national pooling project indicate that snus use is unlikely to confer any important increase in risk of atrial fibrillation.

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2014. Vol. 25, no 6, p. 872-876
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-23436DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000169ISI: 000343122000013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84927738093OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-23436DiVA, id: diva2:778298
Available from: 2015-01-09 Created: 2014-11-17 Last updated: 2015-08-13Bibliographically approved

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