Risk Factors & triggers of AF

•Age

•Gender: male

•Hypertensive of coronary heart disease (with or without MI)

•Heart failure 

•Advanced rheumatic heart disease

•Obesity

•Diabetes

•Thyroid dysfunction/thyrotoxicosis

•Pulmonary disease

•Chronic kidney disease

•Cancer

•Smokers

•Sleep apnoea

•Alcohol and illicit drug use

•Athletes heart

•Inflammation: myocarditis and pericarditis

•Neurological and endocrine disorders