Racial Differences in Atrial Fibrillation Prevalence and Left Atrial Size

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Marcus, Gregory M ^a   Olgin, Jeffrey E ^a   Whooley, Mary ^b,c   Vittinghoff, Eric ^b   Stone, Katie L ^d   Mehra, Reena ^e   Hulley, Stephen B ^b   Schiller, Nelson B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Atrial fibrillation; Black; Caucasian; Left atrium; Race; White

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77950054826     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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