In older adults with incident atrial fibrillation, mortality and heart failure are the most frequent major outcomes within the first 5 years, highlighting the need to focus on cardiovascular events beyond stroke.
After the diagnosis of incident atrial fibrillation in older adults, mortality was the most frequent major outcome during the first 5 years. Among non-fatal cardiovascular events, heart failure was the most common event.
Piccini et al. (Mon,) studied this question.