Decker JJ, Norby FL, Rooney MR, et al. – Researchers assed components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) associated with ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. The study sample consisted of 1,172 patietns with incident AF within 5 years of measurement of MetS components. Findings revealed that there were 113 ischemic stroke cases after a median follow-up of 14.8 years. After adjustment for CHA₂DS₂-VASc variables, the presence of MetS was not significantly linked to ischemic stroke. MetS consideration is thus unlikely to improve the prediction of strokes in people with AF.