Atrial fibrillation among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with sepsis: Incidence and risk factors

Newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) during severe sepsis is associated with increased risks of in-hospital stroke and mortality. However, the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors associated with AF during the sepsis syndromes are unclear. We identified patients with preexisting, newly diagno...

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Published in:The American heart journal 2013-06, Vol.165 (6), p.949-955.e3
Main Authors: Walkey, Allan J., Greiner, Melissa A., Heckbert, Susan R., Jensen, Paul N., Piccini, Jonathan P., Sinner, Moritz F., Curtis, Lesley H., Benjamin, Emelia J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Aged, 80 and over
Atrial Fibrillation - complications
Atrial Fibrillation - economics
Atrial Fibrillation - epidemiology
Beneficiaries
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Comorbidity
Diabetes
Epidemiology
Female
Heart failure
Heart surgery
Hemodialysis
Hospital Mortality - trends
Hospitalization
Humans
Hypertension
Incidence
Infections
Intensive care
Intensive Care Units
Intubation
Kidney diseases
Male
Medicaid
Medicare
Metabolism
Mortality
Older people
Pneumonia
Prevalence
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Sepsis
Sepsis - complications
Sepsis - economics
Sepsis - therapy
United States - epidemiology
Urinary tract diseases
Urogenital system
Variables
Ventilation
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