Meta-analysis of ATRIA versus CHA2DS2-VASc for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation

Several studies have compared the discriminative performances of CHA2DS2-VASc and ATRIA scores, but the results are still disputed. Therefore, we aimed to explore their predictive abilities regarding stroke and thromboembolism (TE) risk in AF patients.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - November 7, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Wengen Zhu, Linghua Fu, Ying Ding, Lin Huang, Zhenyan Xu, Jinzhu Hu, Kui Hong Source Type: research