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Abstract
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of AF in different socioeconomic regions of China and identify its association with stroke, through a national survey. Methods: The study included 726,451 adults aged ≥40 years who were participants of the China National Stroke Screening and Prevention Project, a nationally representative cross-sectional study. Stepwise logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate the association between AF and stroke. Results: The overall standardized prevalence rate of AF was 2.31%. The prevalence of AF was highest in high-income regions (2.54%), followed by middle-income regions (2.33%), and lowest in low-income regions (1.98%). Women had a higher prevalence of AF than men in all regions (low-income regions, 2.30% vs 1.65%; middle-income regions, 2.78% vs 1.89%; and high-income regions, 2.96% vs 2.12%). Compared with urban residents, the prevalence of AF among rural residents was higher in low- (2.03% vs 1.91%) and middle-income regions (2.69% vs 1.90%), but lower in high-income regions (2.44% vs 2.58%). Participants with AF were more likely to have a stroke than those without AF (9.48% vs 2.26%). After adjusting for age, sex, location, overweight or obese, smoking, drinking, physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and a family history of stroke, results showed that AF was significantly associated with stroke. Conclusions: The prevalence of AF has increased in recent years, and it was positively correlated with socioeconomic status, sex (women), location (rural areas), and stroke.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | atrial fibrillation,epidemiology,prevalence,stroke,china,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2018 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2024 00:33 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67406 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.05.131 |
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