Rates of Atrial Fibrillation in Black Versus White Patients With Pacemakers

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Kamel, Hooman ^a,i   Kleindorfer, Dawn O ^b,i   Bhave, Prashant D ^c,i   Cushman, Mary ^d,i   Levitan, Emily B ^e,g,h,i,j   Howard, George ^f,i   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a,i  

^a FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e AVR: Department of Epidemiology   (United States)

^f Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h Departments of Epidemiology and Prevention and Internal Medicine Cardiology   (United States)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j Department of Epidemiology and Prevention   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial flutter; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART PACING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85003698465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.115.002492     Document Type: Article

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