Table 1.

Acute conditions associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) among hospitalized adults

Acute Condition	Number with New-Onset AF * (Total N=22,780)	% New-Onset AF with Condition*	% Condition with New-onset AF	Multivariable†-adjusted odds ratio for new-onset AF (95% CI)
Non-cardiac surgery N=641,071	8481	37.2	1.3	3.08 (2.99-3.18)
Infection N=730,379	7944	34.9	1.1	1.54 (1.49-1.59)
Cardiac surgery N=23,083	4804	21.9	20.8	52.4 (50.2-54.7)
Myocardial infarction N=77,848	2234	9.8	2.9	1.41 (1.34-1.48)
Pulmonary embolism N=20,939	244	1.1	1.2	1.43 (1.26-1.63)
Thyrotoxicosis N=10,172	141	0.6	1.4	1.78 (1.49-2.12)
Myo/pericarditis N=3705	126	0.6	3.4	1.73 (1.41-2.12)

^*Individual patients may have multiple diagnoses associated with new-onset AF

^†Model adjusted for age, race, sex, history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart failure, chronic pulmonary disease, stroke, metastatic cancer, prior myocardial infarction, and the acute conditions infection, surgery (cardiac and non-cardiac), myocardial infarction, alcohol, pulmonary embolism, thyrotoxicosis, myo/pericarditis