In essence, it is the result of a malfunction in the “electrical system” of the heart.
Atrial fibrillation is associated with a greater and more serious range of risks than was considered till today, adversely affecting the whole body, according to a new large british-american scientific research.
The risks due to the fibrillation include cardiac arrest to a greater extent than the stroke, as well as the heart attack, chronic kidney diseases, sudden cardiac death etc.
The risk for stroke was already known, but the new study shows that other risks may be even greater.
Researchers at the universities of Oxford and MIT, led by dr. ΑγιοντÎλε Οντουτάγιο, who made the relevant publication in the british medical journal “British Medical Journal”, evaluated (meta-analysis) the findings of 104 relevant studies involving a total of over nine million people, of which 588.000 had atrial fibrillation.
The analysis showed that this cardiac arrhythmia has increased by more than all (πενταπλασιάζει) the risk of cardiac arrest, as it increases the absolute risk of 11 cases per 1,000 person-years (i.e. years of follow-up of a man).
Increases even to a lesser extent, by 1.6 times, the risk of chronic kidney disease (6,6 more incidents per 1000), mortality from any cause (3,8 per 1.000) and ischemic disease-myocardial (1,4 per 1,000).
Atrial fibrillation doubles the risk of cardiovascular mortality and increases by 2.3 times the risk of ischaemic stroke (caused by thrombosis).
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Atrial fibrillation: what disease multiplies the risk of
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