Prior history of falls and risk of outcomes in atrial fibrillation: The Loire valley atrial fibrillation project

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 972-978

  Banerjee, Amitava ^a   Clementy, Nicolas ^b   Haguenoer, Ken ^b   Fauchier, Laurent ^b   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Bleeding; Falls; Stroke; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLICATION; CONTRAINDICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; HEMORRHAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WARFARIN;

EID: 84908007004     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.05.035     Document Type: Article

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