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- Title
Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiovascular Outcomes in the Elderly.
- Authors
O'NEAL, WESLEY T.; SALAHUDDIN, TAUFIQ; BROUGHTON, STEPHEN T.; SOLIMAN, ELSAYED Z.
- Abstract
Background Prior studies have not examined which cardiovascular outcomes most frequently develop in participants with atrial fibrillation (AF) from population-based cohorts of the elderly. Methods This analysis included 4,304 (85% white; 61% women) participants from the Cardiovascular Health Study who were free of baseline cardiovascular disease. AF cases were identified at baseline and as time-updated events during follow-up. Kaplan-Meier estimates were used to compute the 1-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year cumulative incidence rates of the following outcomes: coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, and ischemic stroke. Cox regression was used to compute hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association between AF and each outcome. Results For all time periods, the cumulative incidence estimates of CHD, MI, heart failure, and ischemic stroke were higher for those with AF compared with those without AF. Heart failure was the most frequent outcome in those with AF, while CHD events were the most frequently detected outcome in participants without AF. Compared with persons who did not have AF, the risk of heart failure was higher in those with AF (HR = 3.18, 95% CI = 2.78-3.64), and the magnitude of this association was greater than the other outcomes of interest (CHD: HR = 1.76, 95% CI = 1.54-2.03; MI: 1.40, 95% CI = 1.14-1.71; ischemic stroke: HR = 1.98, 95% CI = 1.63-2.39). Conclusions AF is associated with several adverse cardiovascular outcomes and heart failure is the most frequently detected event. Potentially, risk factor modification strategies for the primary prevention of heart failure will reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with AF.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; MARYLAND; NORTH Carolina; PENNSYLVANIA; BLOOD testing; CORONARY heart disease risk factors; STROKE risk factors; ATRIAL fibrillation; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; CHEST X rays; CHI-squared test; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFIDENCE intervals; CORONARY disease; HEART failure; HIGH density lipoproteins; LONGITUDINAL method; MYOCARDIAL infarction; REGRESSION analysis; SELF-evaluation; STROKE; T-test (Statistics); MATHEMATICAL variables; DISEASE incidence; PROPORTIONAL hazards models; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; KAPLAN-Meier estimator; OLD age
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 9, p907
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pace.12907