Fine Tuning Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation

Fine Tuning Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation

[...]risk scores provide weak discrimination of stroke risk for some individuals, particularly those with intermediate or high scores (1). There was an increased risk of stroke/systemic embolism (SE) or of cardiac death with increasing quartiles of NT-proBNP, with an increase in hazard ratios of at...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2013-06, Vol.61 (22), p.2285-2287
Hauptverfasser: Troughton, Richard W., MB ChB, PhD, Crozier, Ian, MD
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Acute coronary syndromes
Age
atrial fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation - blood
Atrial Fibrillation - mortality
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Confidence intervals
Decision making
Embolisms
Female
Heart failure
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Mortality
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain - blood
natriuretic peptides
NT-proBNP
Peptide Fragments - blood
Risk Assessment
risk assessment
Stroke
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Zusammenfassung:[...]risk scores provide weak discrimination of stroke risk for some individuals, particularly those with intermediate or high scores (1). There was an increased risk of stroke/systemic embolism (SE) or of cardiac death with increasing quartiles of NT-proBNP, with an increase in hazard ratios of at least 2.3 times for these events for patients in the highest quartile compared with the lowest quartile.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2013.02.066