Rural-urban and geographical differences in prognosis of atrial fibrillation in Finland: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Rural-urban disparities have been reported in the outcomes of cardiovascular diseases. We assessed whether rural-urban or other geographical disparities exist in the risk of ischemic stroke (IS) and death in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Finland.

Methods

The registry-based FinACAF cohort study covers all patients with AF from all levels of care in Finland from 2007 to 2018. Patients were divided into rural-urban categories and into hospital districts (HDs) based on their municipality of residence.

Results

We identified 222,051 patients (50.1% female; mean age 72.8 years; mean follow-up 3.9 years) with new-onset AF, of whom 15,567 (7.0%) patients suffered IS and 72,565 (32.7%) died during follow-up. The crude IS rate was similar between rural and urban

SUBMITTER: Teppo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11487984 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature