Comparison of outcomes of patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease with and without atrial fibrillation (the West Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Project)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1422-1425

  Conway, Dwayne S G ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2542456609     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.02.047     Document Type: Article

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