Distribution and Risk Profile of Paroxysmal, Persistent, and Permanent Atrial Fibrillation in Routine Clinical Practice: Insight from the RealiseAF International Registr

Atrial Fibrillation Thursday, July 12th, 2012

American Heart Association:

Background—There is a paucity of international data on the various types of atrial fibrillation (AF) outside of the highly-selected populations from randomized trials. This study aimed to describe patient characteristics, risk factors, comorbidities, symptoms, management strategy, and control of different types of AF in real-life practice.

Methods and Results—RealiseAF was a contemporary, large-scale, cross-sectional international survey of patients with AF who had ≥ 1 episode in the last 12 months. Investigators were randomly selected to avoid bias. Among 9,816 eligible patients from 831 sites in 26 countries, 2,606 (26.5%) had paroxysmal, 2,341 (23.8%) had persistent, and 4,869 (49.6%) had permanent AF.  Read more

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