Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: NSAID and atrial fibrillation

study reported in BMJ finding a relationship between current NSAID use and development of atrial fibrilliation (see doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004059). they looked at a group within the ongoing Rotterdam Study, a prospective community-based study of elderly. 8423 people without afib at start (mean age 68.5, 58% women), followed 12.9 yrs and matched the dx of afib (either by […]

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