Figure 1.

Temporal trends in all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates at 1 year following diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. (A) Crude rate of all-cause and cause-specific mortality following diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. Labels for years 2001–17 present individual causes of death as a share of the total number of deaths at 1 year. (B) Rate ratios from multivariable Poisson regression models comparing 1-year mortality rates in 2016/2017 with 2001/2002 by first reported cause of death, adjusting for patients’ age, sex, socioeconomic status, region, and 18 baseline comorbidities. ‘Other’ refers to any other causes except the pre-defined nine disease categories for cause of death.