Atrial Fibrillation in a Multiethnic Inpatient Population of a Large Public Hospital
INTRODUCTION
Atrial fibrillation is being increasingly recognized as an important clinical entity in regards to morbidity, mortality, and patient care costs. Since the risk of AF is associated with advancing age, the aging of the population of the United States will likely be associated with increased prevalence of AF with its accompanying medical and socioeconomic factors. In particular, the risk of stroke makes the diagnosis and appropriate therapeutic and preventive measures of paramount importance.
AF and its accompanying clinical factors are largely unreported in underserved populations. We therefore examined the electrocardiographic and discharge record database in a large public hospital, which largely serves a lower-socioeconomic, inner-city population. Prior studies have shown that clinical presentations and related social factors may differ significantly between lower- compared to middle- and upper-socioeconomic hospital based populations at public and private institutions in the same geographic area.
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