Atrial fibrillation and ethnicity: The known, the unknown and the paradox

Future Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 547-556

  Soliman, Elsayed Z ^b   Alonso, Alvaro ^a   Goff Jr , David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74049095205     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.09.49     Document Type: Review

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