- ►chestpubs.org DE Singer, AS Go - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2001 - Elsevier Based solely on observational data, long-term anticoagulation has been a favored therapy to
prevent stroke in rheumatic AF. 47 It was unclear whether anticoagulants would work in nonrheumatic
AF or whether they would be sufficiently safe in the typical elderly patient with this ... Cited by 559 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 17 versions
- ►onlinejacc.org SS Chugh, JL Blackshear, WK Shen, SC Hammill, … - Journal of the American …, 2001 - Elsevier With a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality, the growing “epidemic” of atrial fibrillation
(AF) intersects with a number of conditions, including aging, thromboembolism, hemorrhage,
hypertension and left ventricular dysfunction. Currently, the epidemiology and natural ... Cited by 332 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►bmj.com S Stewart, N Murphy, A Walker, A McGuire, JJV … - British Medical …, 2004 - heart.bmj.com Results: There were 534 000 people with AF in the UK during 1995. The "direct" cost of health
care for these patients was £244 million (~ 350 million) or 0.62% of total National Health Service
(NHS) expenditure. Hospitalisations and drug prescriptions accounted for 50% and 20% ... Cited by 162 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
L Mackenzie, MD Bootman, M Laine, MJ … - The Journal of …, 2002 - Physiological Soc Various cardio-active stimuli, including endothelin-1 (ET-1), exhibit potent arrhythmogenicity,
but the underlying cellular mechanisms of their actions are largely unclear. We used isolated
rat atrial myocytes and related changes in their subcellular Ca 2+ signalling to the ability ... Cited by 117 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►bmj.com A Majeed, K Moser, K Carroll - British Medical Journal, 2001 - heart.bmj.com Despite its importance, only a few studies have examined the prevalence of atrial fibrillation in
the UK. 8 These previous studies have usually involved relatively small populations and there
has been no attempt to examine time trends in prevalence. 9-11 The combination of an ... Cited by 82 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
GM Peterson, K Boom, SL Jackson, JH Vial - Internal medicine journal, 2002 - pt.wkhealth.com Results: Completed questionnaires were received from 711 doctors (30% response rate). The
GPs performed better than the cardiologists and other specialists in estimating the risk of stroke
in case scenarios. However, the cardiologists were more likely to select the ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
SL Jackson, GM Peterson, JH Vial, R … - Internal Medicine …, 2001 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to display style sheets.
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RN Goldstein, BS Stambler - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2005 - Elsevier Enhanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation (AF) and advent of
catheter-based therapy for AF has altered the approach to patients with this most common
arrhythmia. However, despite the success of aggressive procedural techniques, ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - All 13 versions
J Coromilas - Jama, 2004 - Am Med Assoc Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States; nearly 65% of the population
is overweight and nearly 31% is obese. 1 Similarly, atrial fibrillation (AF) is reaching epidemic
proportions, 2 with nearly 2.5 million Americans currently affected. As the population ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
AS Go - Am J Geriatr Cardiol, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com Atrial fibrillation is the most common clinically relevant arrhythmia and preferentially afflicts elderly
persons, especially persons aged ≥75 years, with associated complications of ischemic stroke
and other adverse outcomes. More than 2.2 million Americans currently have atrial ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - All 2 versions
