Clinical characteristics, management, and control of permanent vs. nonpermanent atrial fibrillation: Insights from the realiseAF survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Murin, Jan ^a   Naditch BrÛlé, Lisa ^b   Brette, Sandrine ^c   Chiang, Chern En ^d   O'Neill, James ^e   Gabriel Steg, P ^f,g,h  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c Statistician   (France)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f INSERM   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^h BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIGOXIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOTALOL;

EID: 84900305379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086443     Document Type: Article

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