Temporal trends in incidence, prevalence, and mortality of atrial fibrillation in primary care

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Lane, Deirdre A ^a,b   Skjøth, Flemming ^c,d   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a,b   Larsen, Torben B ^b,c   Kotecha, Dipak ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Incidence; Mortality; Prevalence; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85017178324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.005155     Document Type: Article

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