Afib Linked to Dementia Incidence and Mortality

By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Atrial fibrillation appears independently linked to all forms of dementia, particularly in later middle age, researchers found.

Atrial fibrillation patients 70 or younger were 2.3 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those without the heart rhythm disorder, after multivariate adjustment (P=0.001), in a large prospective cohort study by T. Jared Bunch, MD, of Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, and colleagues.
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