Distribution of first-detected atrial fibrillation patients without structural heart diseases in symptom classifications

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1020-1023

  Senoo, Keitaro ^a   Suzuki, Shinya ^a   Sagara, Koichi ^a   Otsuka, Takayuki ^a   Matsuno, Shunsuke ^a   Funada, Ryuichi ^a   Uejima, Tokuhisa ^a   Oikawa, Yuji ^a   Yajima, Junji ^a   Koike, Akira ^a   Nagashima, Kazuyuki ^a   Kirigaya, Hajime ^a   Sawada, Hitoshi ^a   Aizawa, Tadanori ^a   Yamashita, Takeshi ^a  

^a THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; STROKE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84858972517     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0105     Document Type: Review

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