MD Ezekowitz - Annals of internal medicine, 1999 - Am Coll Physicians B y the year 2030, the number of Americans older than 65 years of age will double. Approx- imately
4% of persons 65 years of age will have atrial fibrillation, and this percentage will increase to
approximately 15% at age 75 (1, 2). These data have important implications for the health ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Cambios en el perfil clínico de los pacientes anticoagulados durante la década de …
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] JS Alpert - European Heart Journal, 2000 - Eur Soc Cardiology Atrial fibrillation is the commonest sustained arrhythmia in North American and European
patients. Apparently, Asians are affected less com- monly by atrial fibrillation than in the West
[1] . In the United States, atrial fibrillation affects approximately 2·2 million adults with a ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
[CITATION] Utilización del tratamiento anticoagulante en los pacientes con fibrilación auricular …
E Vázquez, C Sánchez-Perales, MJ Garcı́a-Cortes, … - International journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier Background: Dialysis patients with atrial fibrillation have an increased thrombolic risk. Dicoumarin
anticoagulant therapy is often considered contra-indicated in chronic renal insufficiency in which
the risk of haemorrhage, though not defined, is perceived to be high. We assessed ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - All 8 versions
KC Abbott, FC Trespalacios, AJ Taylor, LY … - BMC nephrology, 2003 - biomedcentral.com We analyzed the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) Dialysis Morbidity and Mortality
Study (DMMS) Wave II in a historical cohort study of hospitalized atrial fibrillation. Data from 3374
patients who started dialysis in 1996 with valid follow-up times were available for ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - Cached - All 7 versions
[CITATION] Antiplatelet therapy and risk of bleeding in hemodialysis patients
E Vázquez, C Sánchez-Perales, F Borrego, MJ Garcia … - American Heart Journal, 2000 - Elsevier Background The consequences of atrial fibrillation (AF) on morbido-mortality of patients on hemodialysis
have not been fully explored. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of AF
in patients on hemodialysis and to evaluate its influence on the development of ... Cited by 62 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
AP Aboaf, PS Wolf - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996 - archinte.highwire.org Atrial fibrillation affects about 1.5 million Americans1 and is the most common sus¬ tained cardiac
arrhythmia. Its incidence in¬ creases dramaticallywith age. It is thought to beresponsibleforan
estimated $9 million a year in health care costs for the short- and long-termcare ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
[CITATION] Patrones clínicos de presentación de la fibrilación auricular en los pacientes …
