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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 ...

Adding blood tests to an existing risk calculator can help doctors suss out which patients with atrial fibrillation would most benefit from blood thinners, according to findings published Aug. 6 in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk of systemic embolization in patients with valvular heart disease and AF is substantially higher than in ...

The improved CHA2DS2-VASc-Biomarkers risk calculator accounts for these additional risks factors by adding results from the blood tests to the calculation. In the first study, researchers looked at ...

I recently saw four patients in one morning who had atrial fibrillation and either one or two risk factors for stroke. None had symptoms warranting rhythm control or tachycardia requiring rate-control ...

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 ...

Left atrial reservoir strain improves stroke prediction in people without prior atrial fibrillation (AF) or stroke when added to CHA 2 DS 2-VASc variables, according to a study published online Dec.

This indicator covers the percentage of patients who are currently treated with anticoagulation drug therapy in those patients with atrial fibrillation with a record of a CHA 2 DS 2-VASc score of 2 or ...