More or less irregularity in understanding an irregular rhythm: Atrial fibrillation classification and racial differences

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIALS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; COMPLICATION; STROKE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EDITORIALS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 84891690095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000482     Document Type: Editorial

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