Risk of stroke and heart failure attributable to atrial fibrillation in middle-aged and elderly people: Results from a five-year prospective cohort study of Japanese community dwellers.

CONCLUSIONS: AF increased the risk of stroke by the same magnitude as that reported previously in Western countries. AF increased the RR of heart failure more than that in Western populations. PMID: 28390793 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28390793?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Epidemiology - April 10, 2017 Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research