A population screening programme for atrial fibrillation: a report from the Belgian Heart Rhythm Week screening programme

M Proietti, GH Mairesse, P Goethals, C Scavee… - Ep …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is progressively increasing and in the USA, has been
estimated to reach up to 12 million patients in 2050. Despite this, up to 40% of AF patients

Characterization of different subsets of atrial fibrillation in general practice in France: the ALFA study

S Lévy, M Maarek, P Coumel, L Guize, J Lekieffre… - Circulation, 1999 - Am Heart Assoc
… However, the patient population in the present report represents the largest AF database
available. In the reports of the Framingham study, paroxysmal AF was combined with chronic AF…

Screening for atrial fibrillation in primary care

NM Wheeldon, DI Tayler, E Anagnostou, D Cook… - Heart, 1998 - heart.bmj.com
… the whole of a population of patients with atrial fibrillation on an individual basis, … population
aged 65 years and over from a primary care practice, to identify patients with atrial fibrillation

Risk of atrial fibrillation in diabetes mellitus: a nationwide cohort study

JL Pallisgaard, AM Schjerning… - European journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… regarding young diabetes patients and the risk of developing atrial fibrillation is sparse. The
aim … fibrillation in patients with diabetes compared to the background population in Denmark. …

The Canadian Registry of Atrial Fibrillation: a noninterventional follow-up of patients after the first diagnosis of atrial fibrillation

CR Kerr, J Boone, SJ Connolly, P Dorian… - The American journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
… Several studies, which evaluated patient populations, predictors of events, and cardiac
structure and functioning, have been performed and are ongoing. Thyroid function was evaluated …

Hospitalizations for atrial fibrillation in the general male population: morbidity and risk factors

L Wilhelmsen, A Rosengren… - Journal of internal …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… the present population-… fibrillation, and not atrial fibrillation detected on ECGs, the prevalence
was similar to that reported in other studies [6]. It was also very similar to another population

Causes of death and influencing factors in patients with atrial fibrillation

L Fauchier, O Villejoubert, N Clementy… - The American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… Identifying causes of death and their predictors in patients with atrial fibrillationpopulation.
The objective of this study was to identify the causes of death among atrial fibrillation patients

Population-based cohort study of warfarin-treated patients with atrial fibrillation: incidence of cardiovascular and bleeding outcomes

AM Gallagher, TP van Staa, T Murray-Thomas… - BMJ open, 2014 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… rates of common comorbidities and outcomes in the AF patient population will help to
guide clinical management decisions of patients with AF and put further data into perspective. …

Population based study of use of anticoagulants among patients with atrial fibrillation in the community.

M Sudlow, H Rodgers, RA Kenny… - BMJ: British Medical …, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
patients with atrial fibrillation in hospital2 and in primary care,3 but these have been limited
by their reliance on identifying patients with atrial fibrillationpatients with atrial fibrillation in a …

Elevated incidence of atrial fibrillation and stroke in patients with atrial flutter—a population-based study

LJ Gula, DP Redfearn, KB Jenkyn, B Allen… - Canadian journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
patients atteints de flutter auriculaire typique et nous avons apparié 7248 patients à des sujets
de la population … chez 40,4 % des patients atteints de flutter auriculaire et chez 3,3 % de la …