Patients living with one of the UK's most common heart rhythm conditions are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium, new research has found.
Senior author Chris Gale, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, and Co-Director of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at the University of Leeds said,"Atrial fibrillation is a common and often undetected heart rhythm disorder that increases the risk of stroke. Advances in health care have now reduced the chance of having a stroke related to AF, and from dying as result of it, if AF is detected and treated.
The average patient was aged 75.6. Some 48.2% of patients were women, and 61.8% had three or more comorbidities. Over the study period, 20% of patients died from any cause within a year of being diagnosed with AF—but this declined over time. By contrast, there was an increase in mortality rates from mental and neurological disorders, from 2.5% in 2001/02 to 10.1% in 2016/17. Of these deaths, 87.2% were caused by dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The research team say that while this could be partly due to greater awareness of dementia, it also strengthens the evidence that the relationship between AF and dementia is a pressing research priority.
Older people have experienced the greatest rise in hospitalization, with those aged 80 years or more experiencing a 39% rise in hospitalization within a year of AF diagnosisProfessor Gale said,"Patients diagnosed in hospital or from the most deprived group had worse outcomes compared with those diagnosed in the community or from the most affluent group."
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