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SUBMITTER: Kwong C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683906 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwong Calvin C Ling Albee Y AY Crawford Michael H MH Zhao Susan X SX Shah Nigam H NH
Cardiology 20170628 3
<h4>Objectives</h4>Detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) in post-cryptogenic stroke (CS) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients carries important therapeutic implications.<h4>Methods</h4>To risk stratify CS/TIA patients for later development of AF, we conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from 1995 to 2015 in the Stanford Translational Research Integrated Database Environment (STRIDE).<h4>Results</h4>Of the 9,589 adult patients (age ≥40 years) with CS/TIA included, 482 (5%) pati ...[more]