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Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Black Versus White Medicare Beneficiaries With Implanted Cardiac Devices

BACKGROUND: Black individuals in the United States experience higher rates of ischemic stroke than other racial groups but have lower rates of clinically apparent atrial fibrillation (AF). It is unclear whether blacks truly have less AF or simply more undiagnosed AF. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performe...

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Autores principales: Chen, Monica L., Parikh, Neal S., Merkler, Alexander E., Kleindorfer, Dawn O., Bhave, Prashant D., Levitan, Emily B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Kamel, Hooman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30741594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.010661