Brazilian Population Presents Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation Similar to Higher Income Countries, and a Low Use of Anticoagulation Therapy
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most incident arrhythmia and its frequency is increasing as a greater proportion of people over 60 years of age have been become a worldwide tendency.
There is an exponential increase of AF with the advancing of age from 50-59 years, of 5 fold in 60 – 69 years, of 7 fold in 70 – 79 years, and of 9 fold over 80 years.
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