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Prevalence of atrial fibrillation by sex and age
Prevalence of atrial fibrillation by sex and age
Lifetime risk for developing atrial fibrillation (AF) from the Framingham Heart Study. Men and women without AF at 40 years of age were determined to have a 26 and 23 percent likelihood of developing incident AF by 80 years of age.
Reproduced with permission from: Magnani JW, Rienstra M, Lin H, et al. Atrial fibrillation: Current knowledge and future directions in epidemiology and genomics. Circulation 2011; 124:1982. Copyright © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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