Risk Factors for Dementia in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.

ABSTRACT: Although dementia and atrial fibrillation (AF) are common in older adults, risk factors for dementia have not been sufficiently characterized in patients with AF. We studied 621,773 patients with AF without dementia at the time of AF diagnosis who were enrolled in the MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Supplemental databases from 2007 to 2015. Dementia incidence and presence of predictors at the time of AF diagnosis (cardiometabolic conditions, mental and neurologic disorders, and other chronic conditions) were based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes in outpatient and inpatient claims, whereas medication usage was based on outpatient pharmacy claims. A frailty score was calculated using a previously established algorithm. The associati

SUBMITTER: Alam AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9181692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature