Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
Background: The Framingham Study from 1991 showed a clear correlation between atrial fibrillation (AF) and ischemic stroke, where patients with AF had an almost fivefold increase in risk of stroke compared with patients without AF. Since then, several trials have evaluated different antithrombotic t...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Medicin
2016
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-124951 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7601-519-3 |