AF is the most common sustained arrhythmia seen in clinical practice with an overall prevalence of 700-750 per 100,000 of the population in North America (Chugh et al. Circulation 129:837-47, 2014). As well as resulting in considerable adverse sequelae and an increase in hospitalizations there is a 5 fold increase in the risk of stroke associated with non-valvular AF (Wolf et al. Stroke 22:983-8, 1991) and by a factor of 17 in the presence of signifi cant valvular heart disease (Fuster et al. Circulation 123:e269-367, 2011). The risk of AF increases markedly with older age affecting approximately 5 % of people over 65 years and 10 % of people age over 80 years (Miyasaka et al. Circulation 114:119-25, 2006).
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Glover, B. M., & Brugada, P. (2016). Atrial fibrillation. In Clinical Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology (pp. 189–222). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40818-7_8
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