Background Atrial fibrillation is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia. It has been estimated
that 6–12 million people worldwide will suffer this condition in the US by 2050 and 17.9 …

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the world, with major public
health impact especially due to increased risk of stroke and hospitalizations. The recently …

Background—The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. Methods and Results—
We systematically reviewed population-based studies of AF published from 1980 to 2010 …

Background Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is accepted as the most common sustained
cardiac arrhythmia, most published epidemiologic studies focus on predominantly white …

Aims To estimate the prevalence, incidence, mortality, and risk factors for atrial fibrillation
(AF) in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. Methods and results Following the …

Background The most common type of arrhythmia in the USA and in European countries is
atrial fibrillation (AF). The prevalence of AF is increasing worldwide with advances in …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major public health burden worldwide, and its prevalence is set to
increase owing to widespread population ageing, especially in rapidly developing countries …

There are large knowledge gaps regarding the global epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF),
in part due to the paucity of informative community-based or population-based studies …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia worldwide and the estimated global
age adjusted prevalence was 0.5% in 2010, representing nearly 33.5 million individuals. 1 …

BACKGROUND Much of the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF) is based on data from
Western populations. Despite the huge population of Asia, data on the clinical epidemiology …