Atrial fibrillation and stroke: epidemiology

JA Reiffel - The American journal of medicine, 2014 - amjmed.com
… To address this need this program reviews: the epidemiology and demographics of AFib;
risk reduction for the general patient population with AFib; the new oral anticoagulant agents …

Predicting atrial fibrillation and its complications

A Alonso, FL Norby - Circulation Journal, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… and determine their value to improve population health and clinical outcomes, advance …
patients, and develop predictive models for bleeding events and other adverse effects in patients

The cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review of the recent literature

SE Wolowacz, M Samuel, VK Brennan… - Europace, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… Studies also were included if they focused on specific subgroups of patients within the AF
population, on specific interventions, or on treatment settings—with the exception of acute-…

The spectrum of thyroid disease and risk of new onset atrial fibrillation: a large population cohort study

C Selmer, JB Olesen, ML Hansen, J Lindhardsen… - Bmj, 2012 - bmj.com
… unable to detect patients with new onset atrial fibrillation not … nor patients with asymptomatic
paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, … However, most patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in …

Independent risk factors for atrial fibrillation in a population-based cohort: the Framingham Heart Study

EJ Benjamin, D Levy, SM Vaziri, RB D'Agostino… - Jama, 1994 - jamanetwork.com
… risk factors for atrial fibrillation, men had a 1.5 times greater risk of developing atrial fibrillation
than women. In the full multivariable model, the odds ratio (OR) of atrial fibrillation for each …

Managing atrial fibrillation in the very elderly patient: challenges and solutions

N Karamichalakis, KP Letsas, K Vlachos… - Vascular health and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… Management and treatment of AF in this rapidly growing population of older patients involve
a … new frontier of treatment in maintaining an even sinus rhythm in this particular population. …

Risk and prediction of dementia in patients with atrial fibrillation—a nationwide population-based cohort study

JN Liao, TF Chao, CJ Liu, KL Wang, SJ Chen… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk of cognitive … patients experienced
dementia with an annual incidence of 2.12%, higher than non-AF subjects (1.50%). Patients

[HTML][HTML] Atrial fibrillation: the current epidemic

CA Morillo, A Banerjee, P Perel, D Wood… - Journal of geriatric …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… As the population ages globally, atrial fibrillation (AF) is predicted to affect 6–12 million
people in the USA by 2050 and 17.9 million in Europe by 2060. [1] – [3] AF utilizes significant …

Stepwise screening of atrial fibrillation in a 75-year-old population: implications for stroke prevention

J Engdahl, L Andersson, M Mirskaya, M Rosenqvist - Circulation, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
… on patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke, on patients who … patient populations with
previously diagnosed AF or patients … recordings in the general population are scarce. Continuous …

Atrial fibrillation: profile and burden of an evolving epidemic in the 21st century

J Ball, MJ Carrington, JJV McMurray… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
population or outcomes relevant to this review. The remaining 2461 studies revealed that
2279 (92.6%) were ineligible for full-text appraisal because the study design, target population