Khairallah Farhat, Ezzedine Rana, Ganz Leonard I, London Barry, Saba Samir
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Am J Cardiol. 2004 Aug 15;94(4):500-4. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.04.068.
Despite numerous epidemiologic studies, few data exist on recent trends in admissions to United States hospitals of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) as a primary diagnosis and on the determinants of outcome of these hospitalizations. In the present study, we investigated recent trends in the incidence of AF admissions to United States hospitals from 1996 to 2001 using a representative sample of all acute-care hospital admissions in the United States provided by the Centers for Disease Control, with special attention to the importance of age, gender, race, and other determinants of outcome, namely, in-hospital mortality.
尽管有大量的流行病学研究，但关于以心房颤动（AF）作为主要诊断的患者入住美国医院的近期趋势以及这些住院治疗结果的决定因素的数据却很少。在本研究中，我们使用疾病控制中心提供的美国所有急性护理医院入院患者的代表性样本，调查了1996年至2001年美国医院房颤入院发生率的近期趋势，并特别关注年龄、性别、种族以及其他结果决定因素（即住院死亡率）的重要性。
