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SUBMITTER: Li CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4976390 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160808
This study compared the risk of mortality in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients treated adherent to the 2012 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for stroke prevention and those who were not treated according to guideline recommendations. This study used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. From 1996 to 2011, 354,649 newly diagnosed AF patients were identified as the study population. Among the study cohort, 45,595 and 309,054 patients were defined as Guideline-Adher ...[more]