Awareness and treatment of atrial fibrillation in older adults: the present and the future

G. Y. H. Lip
2013 QJM: Quarterly journal of medicine  
Editorial Awareness and treatment of atrial fibrillation in older adults: the present and the future Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest cardiac arrhythmia, with an increasing prevalence with age. However, AF is often asymptomatic and/or intermittent, and very often, its 'how hard one looks' to find AF particularly amongst high-risk groups. Indeed, newly developed AF may be present in 30% of pa-
doi:10.1093/qjmed/hct074 pmid:23525162 fatcat:fc5wxfemcvgsljvho6fj45vlyq