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Refining clinical risk stratification for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation using a novel risk factor based approach: The Euro Heart Survey on Atrial Fibrillation
Chest, 10/06/09

Lip GYH et al. – The novel, simple stroke risk stratification schema, based on a risk factor approach, provides some improvement in predictive value for TE over the CHADS2 schema, with low event rates in ‘low risk’ subjects and the classification of only a small proportion of subjects into the ‘intermediate risk’ category. This schema could improve the approach to stroke risk stratification in patients with AF.

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