50 year trends in atrial fibrillation prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study: a cohort study.

Author Affiliations

1: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Deutsches Zentrum fuer Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung, University Heart Center, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: r.schnabel@uke.de.
2: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
3: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Division of Biostatistics and Health Services Research, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
4: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
5: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Neurology Department, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
6: Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
7: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
8: Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
9: Cardiology Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
10: Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
11: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
12: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Neurology Department, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Preventive Medicine Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
13: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Evans Memorial Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Cardiology Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Preventive Medicine Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
14: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Evans Memorial Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Cardiology Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Preventive Medicine Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
15: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Preventive Medicine Section, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.