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Review
. 2017 Jan;24(1):4-40.
doi: 10.1177/2047487316676037. Epub 2016 Nov 4.

European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) position paper on how to prevent atrial fibrillation endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)

Bulent Gorenek  1 , Antonio Pelliccia  2 , Emelia J Benjamin  3 , Giuseppe Boriani  4 , Harry J Crijns  5 , Richard I Fogel  6 , Isabelle C Van Gelder  7 , Martin Halle  8 , Gulmira Kudaiberdieva  9 , Deirdre A Lane  10 , Torben Bjerregaard Larsen  11 , Gregory Y H Lip  10 , Maja-Lisa Løchen  12   13 , Francisco Marin  14 , Josef Niebauer  15 , Prashanthan Sanders  16 , Lale Tokgozoglu  17 , Marc A Vos  18 , David R Van Wagoner  19 ; Document reviewers:; Laurent Fauchier  20 , Irina Savelieva  21 , Andreas Goette  22 , Stefan Agewall  23 , Chern-En Chiang  24 , Márcio Figueiredo  25 , Martin Stiles  26 , Timm Dickfeld  27 , Kristen Patton  28 , Massimo Piepoli  29 , Ugo Corra  30 , Pedro Manuel Marques-Vidal  31 , Pompilio Faggiano  32 , Jean-Paul Schmid  33 , Ana Abreu  34
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European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) position paper on how to prevent atrial fibrillation endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)

Bulent Gorenek et al. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2017 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Air pollution; Alcohol; Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Caffeine; Diabetes; Diet; Genetic predisposition; Health economics; Hyperlipidaemia; Hypertension; Hyperthyroidism; Medications; Obesity; Obstructive sleep apnoea; Patient preferences; Physical activity; Post-operative atrial fibrillation; Prevention; Psychological distress; Recreational drugs; Risk factors; Smoking; Stroke; Supraventricular arrhythmias; Therapy.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Graph showing time to occurrence of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in all 169 patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Y-Axis reflects the percentage of patients free from atrial fibrillation. (Reprinted from reference 277: J Am Coll Cardiol Vol.25, Hamer ME, Wilkinson WE, Clair WK, Page RL, McCarthy EA, Pritchett EL. Incidence of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. number, p. 984–8, Copyright 1995, with permission from Elsevier.)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Management of supraventricular tachycardias causing AF. AF, atrial fibrillation; AAD, antiarrhythmic drug; PAF, paroxysmal AF; SVT, supraventricular tachycardia.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Lifetime approach to primary prevention of AF. AF, atrial fibrillation.
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