Association of Atrial Fibrillation With Cognitive Decline and Dementia Over 20 Years: The ARIC‐NCS (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study)

Association of Atrial Fibrillation With Cognitive Decline and Dementia Over 20 Years: The ARIC‐NCS (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study)

BackgroundPrevious studies have reported that atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with cognitive decline and dementia. These studies, however, had limited follow‐up, were based mostly on white and highly selected populations, and did not account for attrition. We evaluated the association of inci...

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Main Authors: Lin Y. Chen, Faye L. Norby, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Thomas H. Mosley, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Sunil K. Agarwal, Laura R. Loehr, Aaron R. Folsom, Josef Coresh, Alvaro Alonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
atrial fibrillation
cognition
cohort study
dementia
epidemiology
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.007301

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