Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: European perspective

M Zoni-Berisso, F Lercari, T Carazza… - Clinical …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In the last 20 years, atrial fibrillation (AF) has become one of the most important public health
problems and a significant cause of increasing health care costs in western countries. The …

AHA guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke: 2002 update: consensus panel guide to comprehensive risk reduction for adult patients …

TA Pearson, SN Blair, SR Daniels, RH Eckel, JM Fair… - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
The initial Guide to the Primary Prevention of Cardiovas-cular Diseases was published in
1997 as an aid to healthcare professionals and their patients without established coronary …

2011 ACCF/AHA/HRS focused updates incorporated into the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of the …

V Fuster, LE Rydén, DS Cannom, HJ Crijns, AB Curtis… - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
For new or updated text, view the 2011 Focused Update and the 2011 Focused Update on
Dabigatran. Text supporting unchanged recommendations has not been updated. Atrial …

A multicenter risk index for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

JP Mathew, ML Fontes, IC Tudor, J Ramsay, P Duke… - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAtrial fibrillation is a common, but potentially preventable, complication following
coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ObjectivesTo assess the nature and …

Acc/aha/esc 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: A report of the american college of cardiology/american heart association task force …

V Fuster, LE Rydén, DS Cannom, HJ Crijns, AB Curtis… - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac rhythm disturbance, increasing
in prevalence with age. AF is often associated with structural heart disease, although a …

Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary: The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European …

L Rydén, E Standl, M Bartnik… - European heart …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Task Forces, expert groups, or consensus panels. The chosen experts in these writing
panels are asked to provide disclosure statements of all relationships they may have, which …

ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias—executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology …

Committee Members, C Blomström-Lundqvist… - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
These practice guidelines are intended to assist physicians in clinical decision making by
describing a range of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis and management …

Atrial fibrillation management: a prospective survey in ESC member countries: the Euro Heart Survey on Atrial Fibrillation

R Nieuwlaat, A Capucci, AJ Camm… - European heart …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Aims To describe atrial fibrillation (AF) management in member countries of the European
Society of Cardiology (ESC) and to verify cardiology practices against guidelines. Methods …

Focused 2012 update of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society atrial fibrillation guidelines: recommendations for stroke prevention and rate/rhythm control

AC Skanes, JS Healey, JA Cairns, P Dorian… - Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Abstract The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) published the complete set of 2010
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Guidelines in the January, 2011 issue of the Canadian Journal of …

The Registry of the German Competence NETwork on Atrial Fibrillation: patient characteristics and initial management

M Nabauer, A Gerth, T Limbourg, S Schneider… - Europace, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aims The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients with atrial fibrillation
(AF) enrolled in the Central Registry of the German Competence NETwork on Atrial …