Table 1.
Principal reasons for hospitalisation (patients may have been hospitalised on more than one occasion in 2012)
| Reason | N (%) |
|---|---|
| Patients with atrial fibrillation in 2012 in France (n=533 044) | |
| Cardiac dysrhythmia | 119 930 (22.5) |
| Heart failure | 97 622 (18.3) |
| Lung disease | 63 750 (12.0) |
| Digestive disease | 37 864 (7.1) |
| Vascular or ischaemic diseases | 37 670 (7.1) |
| Stroke/TIA/SE | 36 320 (6.8) |
| Rheumatological disease | 26 810 (5.0) |
| Cancer | 25 894 (4.9) |
| Ophthalmological condition | 11 401 (2.1) |
| Haemorrhage | 7013 (1.3) |
| Other | 117 015 (22.0) |
| Urology/nephrology | 27 193 (5.1) |
| Orthopaedics and rheumatology | 23 087 (4.3) |
| Neurology | 19 658 (3.7) |
| Endocrinology | 15 303 (2.9) |
| Haematology | 15 030 (2.8) |
| Digestive disorders | 12 213 (2.3) |
| Infectious diseases | 5364 (1.0) |
| Patients with AF who died in hospital (n=50 165) | |
| Lung disease | 8967 (17.9) |
| Heart failure | 8316 (16.6) |
| Stroke/TIA/SE | 4901 (9.8) |
| Cancer | 3521 (7.0) |
| Digestive disease | 3091 (6.2) |
| Vascular/ischaemic disease | 2016 (4.0) |
| Cardiac dysrhythmia | 1117 (2.2) |
| Haemorrhage | 716 (1.4) |
| Rheumatological disease | 665 (1.3) |
| Ophthalmological condition | 12 (0.2) |
| Other | 10 038 (20.0) |
| Urology/nephrology | 1545 (3.1) |
| Orthopaedics and rheumatology | 1351 (2.7) |
| Neurology | 1034 (2.1) |
| Infectious diseases | 920 (1.8) |
| Endocrinology | 866 (1.7) |
| Haematology | 683 (1.4) |
| Digestive disorders | 406 (0.8) |
SE, systemic embolism; TIA, transient ischaemic attack.