Increasing atrial fibrillation prevalence in acute ischemic stroke and TIA

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate trends in atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and TIA in the United States. METHODS: We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to retrospectively compute weighted prevalence of AF in AIS (n = 4,355,140) and TIA (n = 1,816,459) patients admitted to...

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Published in:Neurology
Main Authors: Otite, Fadar Oliver, Khandelwal, Priyank, Chaturvedi, Seemant, Romano, Jose G., Sacco, Ralph L., Malik, Amer M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109948/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27733570
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000003321
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