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Admissions with atrial fibrillation: disease patterns and outcomes in a District General Hospital
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Sir,
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the commonest cause of hospital admissions due to a cardiac arrhythmia. The UK had 43000 admissions with more than 350 000 bed-days used during 20012002.1 Its prevalence is likely to increase in an ageing population.
Many of the trials of intervention in AF are based
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