Doctors know patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of having a stroke, and now a new study finds that integrating two separate clinical risk score models helps clinicians more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The strongest predictors of incident AF with a HR of 1.2 or greater were hypertension, older age, CAD, HF, ...

image: Combining two independent, scientifically-proven risk measurements allows physicians to better predict an atrial fibrillation patient's risk of stroke or death. The tools also help determine ...

Doctors know patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of having a stroke, and now a new study finds that integrating two separate clinical risk score models helps clinicians more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Katia Orvin, MD, of the cardiology department of Rabin Medical Center at Tel-Aviv University in Israel, and ...

Female sex has a strong relationship with stroke risk in patients with nonvalvular A-fib, a new analysis affirms, but the disparity between women and men varies according to the presence of other risk ...

A recent British study published in European Heart Journal has reignited discussions on the role of sex as a determinant in prescribing anticoagulants, particularly for patients under the age of 65.

Retrospective data support use of oral anticoagulants for death and MACE risk reduction in patients with end-stage kidney disease and nonvalvular atrial fibrillation who have an elevated CHA2DS2-VASc ...

Although patients with A-fib and those with atrial flutter (AFL) are generally managed by clinicians in much the same way for stroke prevention, new data suggest that a common risk score used for both ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 70-year old woman with a prior history of asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AFib). I’ve been in normal sinus rhythm since having two catheter ablations in 2018. I take Eliquis ...