Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation?

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Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation?

December 1, 2008

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Fuster V, et al. (2006). ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation—Executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 2001 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation). Circulation, 114(7): 700–752.
Wang TJ, et al. (2003). A risk score for predicting stroke or death in individuals with new-onset atrial fibrillation in the community: The Framingham heart study. JAMA, 290(8): 1049–1056.

Last Updated:December 1, 2008

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Medical Review:Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine &Richard D. Zorowitz, MD - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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