[Comment] Stroke and mortality after atrial fibrillation —a global struggle

Atrial fibrillation is a widely recognised health-care challenge with increasing prevalence across the world. Epidemiological observations mainly attribute this increase to an ageing population and better prognosis in distinguishing it from other cardiac disorders such as myocardial infarction.1 Research into atrial fibrillation has focused on antithrombotic management for stroke prevention and mortality, in the era of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants.2 However, although these large, phase 3 trials enrolled patients from many centres in different countries and included broad populations, regional differences and between-centre variations in quality of treatment might have affected the results.
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