A Risk Score to Predict Future Atrial Fibrillation Derived From Patients With Stroke Initially Presenting With Atrial Fibrillation? | Zendy

Raoul Stahrenberg | Zendy; Rolf Wachter | Zendy; Klaus Gröschel | Zendy

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A Risk Score to Predict Future Atrial Fibrillation Derived From Patients With Stroke Initially Presenting With Atrial Fibrillation?

Author(s) -

Raoul Stahrenberg,

Rolf Wachter,

Klaus Gröschel

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.109.573675

Subject(s) - atrial fibrillation , medicine , stroke (engine) , cardiology , atrial flutter , logistic regression , emergency medicine , mechanical engineering , engineering

To the Editor:We read with great interest the article by Suissa et al1 describing a score named Score for the Targeting of Atrial Fibrillation (STAF) derived by multivariate logistic regression analysis to predict the occurrence of atrial fibrillation up to 3 months after an ischemic stroke in an unselected patient cohort from a tertiary care hospital.Estimating the likelihood of atrial fibrillation as a cause of ischemic stroke would be greatly useful for guiding the diagnostic workup and secondary preventive strategies. However, we understand from the article …

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