Temporal trends in mortality, heart failure hospitalisation, and stroke in heart failure patients with and without atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study from 1997-2018 on 152,059 patients.

From 1997 to 2018, we observed an increase in patients with HF and co-existing AF. Mortality decreased for all patients, regardless of AF-status. Anticoagulation therapy increased, and stroke risk for patients with AF was reduced to a similar level as patients without AF in 2013-2018.