Prognostic importance of atrial fibrillation in heart failure according to time elapsed since diagnosis

Heart Rhythm O2. 2022 May 5;3(4):430-432. doi: 10.1016/j.hroo.2022.04.008. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Brian Schwartz¹, Morten Schou², Irene Maria Barrillas Lara¹, Kevin Monahan³, Robert Helm³, Lars Køber⁴, Gunnar H Gislason⁵, Vasan S Ramachandran^{3

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev and Gentofte, Herlev, Denmark.
³ Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ The Heart Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev and Gentofte, Gentofte, Denmark.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Boston University's Center for Computing and Data Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁹ Departments of Cardiology and Epidemiology, Nordsjællands Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.

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Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Heart failure; Mortality; Survival.

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