Table 3.

Crude Incident Rates for the Studied Events during 36 Months Observation.

	AF (n=55) No. of events	Incident rate per 100 person-yrs	Non-AF (n=325) No. of events	Incident rate per 100 person-yrs
All-cause death	26	15.75	62	6.35
Cardiovascular death	9	5.45	25	2.56
Ischemic stroke/systemic embolism	6	3.63	20	2.05
Major bleeding	9	5.45	28	2.87
Gastrointestinal bleeding	4	2.42	21	2.15
Hemorrhagic stroke	1	0.60	8	0.82
Heart failure	6	3.63	23	2.35

AF: atrial fibrillation