Figure 4.

Temporal trends in all-cause and cause-specific mean number of hospitalizations at 1 year following diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. (A) Crude rate of all-cause and cause-specific hospitalization following diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. Labels for years 2001–17 present individual causes of hospitalization as a share of the total number of hospitalizations at 1 year. (B) Rate ratios from multivariable Poisson regression models comparing 1-year hospitalization rates in 2016/2017 with 2001/2002 by primary cause of admission, adjusting for patients’ age, sex, socio-economic status, region, and 18 baseline comorbidities. ‘Other’ refers to any other causes except the pre-defined 11 disease categories for hospitalizations.