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Author(s):
Weng LC et al.
Publish date:
6 March 2018
Journal:
Circulation
PubMed ID:
29129827

Abstract

Lifetime risk of AF is nearly 37 % in individual of European ancestry. Individuals who have higher genetics risk or clinical risks would have higher chance to develop AF comparing to individuals who have lower risks (50% vs 30%). In addition, we observed that AF patients who have a lower clinical risk burden were associated with a later AF onset time regardless of their genetic predisposition.

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