Effects of body mass index on risks for ischemic stroke, thromboembolism, and mortality in Chinese atrial fibrillation patients: A single-center experience

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Hai Jun ^a   Si, Quan Jin ^b   Shan, Zhao Liang ^a   Guo, Yu Tao ^a   Lin, Kun ^a   Zhao, Xiao Ning ^a   Wang, Yu Tang ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Hainan Branch of General Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNDERWEIGHT; ANIMAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHINA; COMPLICATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84927546107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123516     Document Type: Article

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