International journal of cardiology
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Risk factors and incidence of stroke and MACE in Chinese atrial fibrillation patients presenting to emergency departments: a national wide database analysis.
Contemporary clinical risk stratification schemata for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are largely derived from western cohorts. The purpose of the present study is to assess the potential risk factors for stroke and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in a large population of Chinese AF patients presenting to emergency department. ⋯ We demonstrated that, except for the traditional risk factors, clinicians should pay more attention to patients with prior major bleeding or COPD in Chinese AF patients presenting to emergency department.