Characterization of Different Subsets of Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice in France
| Autor: | Samuel Lévy, Louis Guize, Jean-Louis Medvedowsky, Alain Sebaoun, Jean Lekieffre, Philippe Coumel, Martine Maarek |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Fibrillation
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Atrial fibrillation medicine.disease Coronary artery disease Embolism Physiology (medical) Internal medicine General practice medicine Cardiology Population study medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Cardiac disorders business Prospective cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 99:3028-3035 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 0009-7322 |
| DOI: | 10.1161/01.cir.99.23.3028 |
| Popis: | Background —The clinical presentation and causes of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the 1990s may differ from AF seen 2 to 3 decades ago. It was the objective of this prospective study to characterize various clinical presentations and underlying conditions of patients with AF observed in general practice in France. Methods and Results —The study population comprised 756 patients (19 to 95 years of age) with electrocardiographically documented AF subdivided into paroxysmal (1 month) and recent onset AF(persistent >7 days and Conclusions —This large-scale study establishes the current demographic profile of out-of-hospital patients with AF and highlights some of the changes that have occurred in the past decades, including a particular shift in cardiac causes toward nonrheumatic AF. This study also demonstrates significant differences between various subsets of AF. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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