Women Versus Men with Chronic Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from the Standard Versus Atrial Fibrillation specific management study (SAFETY)
Atrial Fibrillation Sunday, June 16th, 2013PLOS one – 5/29/13
Background
Gender-based clinical differences are increasingly being identified as having significant influence on the outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), including atrial fibrillation (AF).
Objective
To perform detailed clinical phenotyping on a cohort of hospitalised patients with chronic forms of AF to understand if gender-based differences exist in the clinical presentation, thrombo-embolic risk and therapeutic management of high risk patients hospitalised with chronic AF. Read More
