BMI: Body Mass Index, CAD: Coronary Artery Disease, DLD: Dyslipidemia, DM: Diabetes Mellitus, FUP: follow up, HT: Hypertension, LAVi: Left Atrium Volume index, LVEF: Left Ventricle Ejection Fraction, m: months, NR: Not Reported PAF: Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, PVI: Pulmonary Venous Isolation, Rec: Recurrence, y: years

Continuous variables are summarized as mean (SD)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: IA, MK and GG involved in study conception and design, database search, data extraction and analysis. All authors were involved in data interpretation, drafting of manuscript and critical revision.