Women Versus Men with Chronic Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from the Standard Versus Atrial Fibrillation spEcific managemenT studY (SAFETY)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ball, Jocasta ^a,b   Carrington, Melinda J ^a,b   Wood, Kathryn A ^c   Stewart, Simon ^a,b  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDY DESIGN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THYROID DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 84878446624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065795     Document Type: Article

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