Increasing Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in the United States
November 24th, 2009 Posted by: admin
Publication year: 2009
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 104, Issue 11, 1 December 2009, Pages 1534-1539
Gerald V., Naccarelli , Helen, Varker , Jay, Lin , Kathy L., Schulman
The prevalence data for atrial fibrillation (AF) are dated. The present retrospective study estimated the current and projected prevalence of AF and atrial flutter (AFL) in the United States using a large national database. Claims data drawn from July 2004 to December 2005 from the MarketScan research databases from Thomson Reuters were used to identify patients aged ≥20 years with nontransient AF and/or AFL and age- and gender-matched controls without these conditions. Of the 21,648,681 patients in the databases, 242,903 (1.12%) had nontransient AF and/or AFL (222,605 AF only, 5,376 AFL only, and 14,922 AF and AFL). Patients with AF…
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