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Uptake of atrial fibrillation screening aiming at stroke prevention: geo-mapping of target population and non-participation

BACKGROUND: In a screening study for silent atrial fibrillation (AF), which is a frequent source of cardiac emboli with ischemic stroke, the proportion of non-participants was considerable and their clinical profile differed from the participants’ profile. We intended to geo-map the target populatio...

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Autores principales: Engdahl, Johan, Holmén, Anders, Rosenqvist, Mårten, Strömberg, Ulf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-715