A rising tide: The global epidemic of atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 829-830

  Alonso, Alvaro ^a   Bengtson, Lindsay G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EDITORIALS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84896716301     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.007482     Document Type: Editorial

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