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European Heart Journal 2006 27(8):893-894; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi651
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The epidemiological burden of atrial fibrillation: a challenge for clinicians and health care systems

Giuseppe Boriani*, Igor Diemberger, Cristian Martignani, Mauro Biffi and Angelo Branzi

Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 0 513 49858; fax: +39 0 513 44859. E-mail address: cardio1@med.unibo.it

This editorial refers to ‘Prevalence, incidence and lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation: the Rotterdam study’{dagger} by Heeringa et al., on page 949

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There is increasing awareness that management of atrial fibrillation (AF) and its complications (particularly strokes) constitutes an important burden for health care systems and a major clinical challenge. AF is the most common sustained arrhythmia, and detailed knowledge of its epidemiology is important both for provision of adequate care and for resource allocation. Available epidemiological studies have mainly focused on prevalence of AF. Important frequency variations have been recorded, often linked to different detection procedures.1 Most of what we know about the incidence of AF in the general population comes from two large North American studies and a single study from Britain mostly regarding hospitalized patients.1 Thus, the new population-based cohort study by Herringa et al.2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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