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Risk of stroke in patients with heart failure and sinus rhythm: data from the Swedish Heart Failure Registry.

Clara HjalmarssonMichael FuTatiana Zverkova SandströmMaria SchaufelbergerCharlotta LjungmanBjörn AnderssonEntela BollanoUlf DahlströmAnnika Rosengren
Published in: ESC heart failure (2020)
In terms of absolute risk, only 27.6% of patients had an annual IS incidence of ≤1%. To which extent this would be amenable to anticoagulant treatment remains conjectural. A score compiling age and specific co-morbidities identified HF-SR patients with increased risk of IS with modest discriminative ability.
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