Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects (the Cardiovascular Health Study)

Singer, 1992, Preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation, Coronary Artery Dis, 3, 753 Godtfredsen, 1982, Atrial fibrillation: course and prognosis—a follow-up study of 1,212 cases, 158 Farahi, 1993, Atrial fibrillation: prognostic significance and therapeutic implications, 333 Pritchett, 1992, Management of atrial fibrillation, N Engl J Med, 326, 1264, 10.1056/NEJM199205073261906 Wosika, 1950, Unipolar precordial and limb lead electrocardiograms in the aged, Geriatrics, 5, 131 Taran, 1958, Electrocardiographic changes with advancing age, Geriatrics, 352 Sourander, 1967, Cardiovascular diseases in persons aged 65 years and over in Turku, Ann Med Intern Fenn, 56, 9 Bowers, 1969, Electrocardiogram of nonagenarians, Geriatrics, 89 Mihalick, 1974, Electrocardiographic findings in the aged, Am Heart J, 87, 117, 10.1016/0002-8703(74)90400-1 Campbell, 1974, Prevalence of abnormalities of electrocardiogram in old people, Br Heart J, 36, 1005, 10.1136/hrt.36.10.1005 Camm, 1980, The rhythm of the heart in active elderly subjects, Am Heart J, 99, 598, 10.1016/0002-8703(80)90733-4 Fleg, 1982, Cardiac arrhythmias in a healthy elderly population. Detection by 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography, Chest, 81, 302, 10.1378/chest.81.3.302 Camm, 1984, Clinical electrocardiography, 149 Tell, 1993, Recruitment of adults 65 years and older as participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study, Ann Epidemiol, 3, 358, 10.1016/1047-2797(93)90062-9 Fried, 1991, The Cardiovascular Health Study: design and rationale, Ann Epidemiol, 1, 263, 10.1016/1047-2797(91)90005-W Psaty, 1992, Assessing the use of medications in the elderly: methods and initial results in the Cardiovascular Health Study, J Clin Epidemiol, 45, 683, 10.1016/0895-4356(92)90143-B Newman, 1993, The ankle-arm index as a marker of atherosclerosis in the Cardiovascular Health Study, Circulation, 88, 837, 10.1161/01.CIR.88.3.837 Rautaharju, 1990, Methodology of ECG interpretation in the Dalhousie Program: NOVACODE ECG classification procedure for clinical trials and population health surveys, Methods Inf Med, 29, 362, 10.1055/s-0038-1634798 Furberg, 1992, Major electrocardiographic abnormalities in persons aged 65 years and older (the Cardiovascular Health Study), Am J Cardiol, 69, 1329, 10.1016/0002-9149(92)91231-R Gardin, 1992, Echocardiographic design of a multi-center investigation of free-living elderly subjects: the Cardiovascular Health Study, J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 5, 63, 10.1016/S0894-7317(14)80105-3 O'Leary, 1991, The use of sonography to evaluate carotid atherosclerosis in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study, Stroke, 22, 1155, 10.1161/01.STR.22.9.1155 Mittelmark, 1993, Prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in older adults. The cardiovascular Health Study, Am J Epidemiol, 137, 311, 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116678 Bush, 1989, Self-report and medical record report agreement of selected medical conditions in the elderly, Am J Public Health, 79, 1554, 10.2105/AJPH.79.11.1554 Manolio, 1994, Cardiac arrhythmias on 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography in older women and men: the Cardiovascular Health Study, J Am Coll Cardiol, 10.1016/0735-1097(94)90638-6 Wolf, 1987, Atrial fibrillation: a major contributor to stroke in the elderly. The Framingham Study, Arch Intern Med, 147, 1561, 10.1001/archinte.1987.00370090041008 Wolf, 1991, Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke. The Framingham Study, Stroke, 22, 983, 10.1161/01.STR.22.8.983 Henry, 1976, Relation between echocardiographically determined left atrial size and atrial fibrillation, Circulation, 53, 273, 10.1161/01.CIR.53.2.273 Kopecky, 1987, The natural history of lone atrial fibrillation: a population-based study over three decades, N Engl J Med, 317, 669, 10.1056/NEJM198709103171104 Kannel, 1982, Epidemiologic features of chronic atrial fibrillation. The Framingham Study, N Engl J Med, 306, 1018, 10.1056/NEJM198204293061703