Clinical Features and Prognosis in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Prior Stroke: Comparing the Fushimi and Darlington AF Registries

Clinical Features and Prognosis in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Prior Stroke: Comparing the Fushimi and Darlington AF Registries

Background: Ethnic differences in clinical characteristics, stroke risk profiles and outcomes among atrial fibrillation (AF) patients may exist. We therefore compared AF patients with previous stroke from Japan and the United Kingdom (UK). Methods: We compared clinical characteristics, stroke risk a...

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Main Authors: Hisashi Ogawa, Keitaro Senoo, Yoshimori An, Alena Shantsila, Eduard Shantsila, Deirdre A. Lane, Andreas Wolff, Masaharu Akao, Gregory Y.H. Lip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Atrial fibrillation
Previous stroke
Secondary prevention
Observational
Japan
United Kingdom
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396417301184

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