International Journal of Cardiology
Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages 173-180 , 4 March 2010

Atrial fibrillation prevalence, incidence and risk of stroke and all-cause death among Chinese

  • Kuo-Liong Chien

      Affiliations

    • The Institute of Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ta-Chen Su

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hsiu-Ching Hsu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Wei-Tien Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Pei-Chung Chen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Environmental Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Fong Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yuan-Teh Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, 100, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 2356 2910; fax: +886 2 2392 0456.

Received 1 May 2008 ,Revised 15 July 2008 ,Accepted 12 October 2008.

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☆ This study was partially supported by the National Science Council (grant number: NSC 96-2314-B-002-155).

PII: S0167-5273(08)01073-5

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.10.045

International Journal of Cardiology
Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages 173-180 , 4 March 2010

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