Multimorbidity and the risk of hospitalization and death in atrial fibrillation: A population-based study

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have many comorbidities and excess risks of hospitalization and death. Whether the impact of comorbidities on outcomes is greater in AF than the general population is unknown. One thousand four hundred thirty patients with AF and community controls matched 1:1...

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Published in:The American heart journal 2017-03, Vol.185, p.74-84
Main Authors: Chamberlain, Alanna M., Alonso, Alvaro, Gersh, Bernard J., Manemann, Sheila M., Killian, Jill M., Weston, Susan A., Byrne, Margaret, Roger, Véronique L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Arthritis - epidemiology
Asthma - epidemiology
Atrial Fibrillation - epidemiology
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Cause of Death
Comorbidity
Coronary artery
Coronary artery disease
Coronary Artery Disease - epidemiology
Death
Dementia - epidemiology
Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Female
Fibrillation
Health risk assessment
Heart diseases
Heart Failure - epidemiology
Hospitalization
Humans
Hyperlipidemias - epidemiology
Hypertension
Hypertension - epidemiology
Incidence
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Logistic Models
Male
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Middle Aged
Minnesota - epidemiology
Mortality
Multimorbidity
Multivariate Analysis
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Obesity - epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Osteoporosis - epidemiology
Patients
Population
Population studies
Population-based studies
Proportional Hazards Models
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology
Risk
Risk Factors
Risk taking
Smoking
Smoking - epidemiology
Stroke - epidemiology
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