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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2011 Aug 4;42(10):2950–2953. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.621367

Table 2. Association between atrial fibrillation identified using different methods and incident stroke.

Demographic model *
HR (95% CI)		 p-value Framingham model †
HR (95% CI)		 p-value
Self-reported atrial fibrillation 1.55 (1.17, 2.04) 0.002 1.41 (1.05,1.88) 0.020
ECG-detected atrial fibrillation 1.78 (1.03, 3.09) 0.039 1.90 (1.10, 3.27) 0.022
Atrial fibrillation by either self report or ECG 1.66 (1.27, 2.17); <0.001 1.53 (1.16, 2.01) 0.003
*

Age, race and sex

†

Demographic model + use of antihypertensive medications, systolic blood pressure, current smoking, diabetes, left ventricular hypertrophy, and prior heart disease.