Population
The very old
Design
Review
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Emphasize stroke prevention in very old AF patients; leaves open multifactorial dementia etiology for further study.
While AF is a known risk factor for stroke, it does not appear to be a direct risk factor for dementia in the very old, where etiology is multifactorial.
Rastas et al. (2007) studied this question.
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