Acceleration of opportunistic atrial fibrillation screening for elderly patients in routine primary care.

Cardio-embolic ischemic stroke caused by atrial fibrillation is more severe compared with other types of stroke, such as lacunar infarction and atherothrombotic infarction in patients without atrial fibrillation. Therefore, it is important to prevent cardio-embolic ischemic stroke by detecting atria...

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Main Authors: Akifumi Suzuki, Tomonori Okamura, Masahiro Sasaki, Hitoshi Matsuoka, Yoshinobu Ikeda, Akira Takahashi, Sayako Akiyama, Fumiko Ono, Nariaki Yoshihara, Akita Study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244240