Racial disparities in awareness and treatment of atrial fibrillation: The REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Warfarin reduces stroke risk by about 60% in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Differences in awareness and treatment of AF may contribute to racial and geographic disparities in stroke mortality. The objective was to examine predictors of awareness of the diagnosis o...

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Hauptverfasser: Meschia, James F., Merrill, Peter, Soliman, Elsayed Z., Howard, Virginia J., Barrett, Kevin M., Zakai, Neil A., Kleindorfer, Dawn, Safford, Monika, Howard, George
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885129/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20190000
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.573907
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