Assessing stroke risk in atrial fibrillation

... consequences • Independent risk factor for stroke – Approximately fivefold increased risk1 – in strokes occur in patients with AF2 – AF-related strokes are typically more severe than strokes due ... aetiologies3,4 – Stroke risk is unaltered even in patients with asymptomatic or intermittent AF5 • Independent risk factor for mortality – Approximately twofold increased risk6 •...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2015, 13:41

... decisional support panel ACTIVE-W =Atrial fibrillation clopidogrel trial with irbesartan for prevention of vascular events-warfarin; ACTIVE -A= Atrial fibrillation clopidogrel trial with irbesartan for ... settings in tertiary institutions The Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Treatment of the Aged (BAFTA) trial demonstrated the benefits of warfarin in prima...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Critical Care Vol 11 No Sleeswijk et al Table Questions regarding the prevalence and treatment of atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients What is the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation ... nosocomial complications Can treatment of atrial fibrillation improve survival? There are few data on the effect of treatment of AF on mortali...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... banks enabling them to access and authority to operate in financial and capital markets From this credit information, financial information and qualitative appraisal of the majority of companies ... generated by various multinational agencies and/or locally at each country’s official business statistic report in form of master file data, combination of application and demogr...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... of the eight SF-36 domains, items with domains, item with and items and with all eight domains Rasch analysis In the Rasch analysis, each of the remaining six items were tested individually and ... than actual symptomatology The correlation of symptomatology and arrhythmia, especially atrial fibrillation, has also The new short instrument is a reliable and valid...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... of the eight SF-36 domains, items with domains, item with and items and with all eight domains Rasch analysis In the Rasch analysis, each of the remaining six items were tested individually and ... than actual symptomatology The correlation of symptomatology and arrhythmia, especially atrial fibrillation, has also The new short instrument is a reliable and valid...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Further prospective studies are required to study the clinical implications and prognosis of patients with positive troponins in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter and to identify those patients ... patients presenting with atrial fibrillation/flutter to the emergency department: retrospective chart review International Journal of Emergency...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... doi:10.1186/1423-0127-17-23 Cite this article as: Wang et al.: Association between transforming growth factor b1 polymorphisms and atrial fibrillation in essential hypertensive subjects Journal of Biomedical Science ... Turner DM, Sinnott PJ, Hutchinson IV: Genotypic variation in the transforming growth factor- beta1 gene: association with transforming...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... this article as: Naji and Sabovic: Lipoprotein(a) and inflammation in patients with atrial fibrillation after electrical cardioversion Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2011 10:15 Submit ... DG, Lee SH, Cho KH: Female patients with atrial fibrillation have increased oxidized and glycated lipoprotein properties and lower apolipoprotein A-I expressio...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... shock patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation and septic shock patients with maintained sinus rhythm AF, atrial fibrillation; SR, sinus rhythm Abbreviations AF: atrial fibrillation; CRP: C-reactive ... development and maintenance of AF Therefore, we analyzed inflammation parameters before and after occurrence of new-onset AF Finally, no data regarding the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... after adjustment and propensity score use, supraventricular arrhythmia did not increase the risk of hospital death [15] Interestingly, in the study by Meierhenrich and colleagues the mortality in ... was not in uenced by the presence of AF despite a higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score in AF patients [1] AF is not just an artefact in the ICU, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20

... the +294T/C polymorphism and serum lipids, coronary heart disease, and body mass index (BMI) was calculated using the Student’s t-test analysis with genotype as the group variable and total cholesterol, ... characterized by a rise of HDL and lowering of LDL, triglycerides, and insulin [5] In addition, transgenic expression of an activated PPAR in mice co...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... 1987 The Benefits of Bank Deposit Rate Ceilings: New Evidence on Bank Rates and Risk in the 1920s Arthur J Rolnick Senior Vice President and Director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ... removal of ceilings, the result that there was no correlation between bank rates and bank risk The result is suspect for both methodolo...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn 2008/43 Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: An Analysis of the Subprime-Mortgage Financial Crisis Martin Hellwig ... claims of the senior and mezzanine tranches, the holders of the mezzanine tranche get the entire excess of the return over the claim of the senior...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20