New Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Emphasize Stroke Prevention - CME Teaching Brief� - MedPage Today
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NEW YORK, August 2 -- Stroke risk trumps age, gender or other history of heart disease in determine which atrial fibrillation patients will benefit from anticoagulation, according to revised guidelines issued today by three major heart societies.
Stroke is a natural focus of the new guidelines, said Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Institute here, because atrial fibrillation is a major risk factor for stroke, and strokes associated with atrial fibrillation "are especially large and disabling."
Dr. Fuster co-chaired the writing committee for the revised guidelines, which were published online by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology. They appeared in Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the European Heart Journal.
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