Risk of stroke in patients with heart failure and sinus rhythm: data from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry

ConclusionsIn terms of absolute risk, only 27.6% of patients had an annual IS incidence of ≤1%. To which extent this would be amenable to anticoagulant treatment remains conjectural. A score compiling age and specific co‐morbidities identified HF‐SR patients with increased risk of IS with modest discriminative ability.

Source: ESC Heart Failure - November 9, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Clara Hjalmarsson, Michael Fu, Tatiana Zverkova Sandstr öm, Maria Schaufelberger, Charlotta Ljungman, Björn Andersson, Entela Bollano, Ulf Dahlström, Annika Rosengren Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research