Contemporary management of atrial fibrillation in primary and secondary care in the UK: the prospective long-term AF-GEN-UK Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study established a prospective registry of contemporary management of UK patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) by cardiologists, general practitioners, and stroke, acute, and emergency medicine physicians at baseline and 1-year follow-up.

Methods and results

Data on patients with recently diagnosed AF (≤12 months) were collected from medical records from 101 UK sites to permit comparison of patient characteristics and treatments between specialities. The impact of guideline-adherent oral anticoagulation (OAC) use on outcomes was assessed using Cox regression analysis. One thousand five hundred and ninety-five AF patients [mean (standard deviation) age 70.5 (11.2) years; 60.1% male; 97.4% white] were recruited in June 2017-June 2018 and followed up for 1 year. Ove

SUBMITTER: Shantsila A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9934988 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature