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Editorial
. 2023 Jul 19;15(14):6622-6624.
doi: 10.18632/aging.204918. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

The impact of frailty on the management of atrial fibrillation

Stephanie L Harrison  1   2 , Søren P Johnsen  3 , Gregory Y H Lip  1   2   3
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Editorial

The impact of frailty on the management of atrial fibrillation

Stephanie L Harrison et al. Aging (Albany NY). .
No abstract available

Keywords: ABC pathway; atrial fibrillation; frailty; multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: SLH: received research funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), outside of the submitted work. SPJ: Consultant for BMS/Pfizer. Institutional research funding from BMS/Pfizer, outside the submitted work. GYHL: Consultant and speaker for BMS/Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, Anthem. No fees are received personally. SPJ and GYHL are co-principal investigators of the AFFIRMO project on multimorbidity in AF, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 899871.

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Extension of the Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway to include consideration of screening for pre-frailty and frailty in the “C” component of the pathway.
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