Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Prevention: Do We Need a Risk Score?

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¹ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jsingh@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Jagmeet P Singh et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2017 Jan.

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. 2017 Jan;5(1):53-55.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.11.005.

¹ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jsingh@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; heart failure; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; outcomes.

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