Atrial fibrillation screening to help reduce stroke risk

Recently, researchers from the University of Sydney, the study showed that for individuals aged 65 and over were asymptomatic atrial fibrillation screening and the use of anticoagulant drug therapy may be able to greatly reduce the individual deaths due to stroke and premature death risks related to research published in the international journal Journal of the American Medical Association on.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an abnormal heart rhythm, it will give patients the risk of heart thrombosis, when blood clots break will flow into the brain cause serious stroke. Previous studies have found that compared to age and sex-matched individuals without atrial fibrillation, the risk of stroke in asymptomatic individuals with atrial fibrillation and premature death is two times the former. A lot of evidence that the use of oral anticoagulation with warfarin or novel oral anticoagulant to treat symptoms of atrial fibrillation or completely reverse the individual stroke risk, but also can partially reverse the individual risk of premature death.
The researchers, Professor Ben Freedman noted that comprehensive screening of asymptomatic patients with atrial fibrillation can help reduce the risk of an individual stroke-related disability and also can save the lives of patients; however, the current screening program is not in the guidelines recommend. Atrial fibrillation is a common heart arrhythmia serious performance problems in every three patients had a stroke patient, and in 27% of patients with atrial fibrillation-related stroke, a heart rhythm disorder often does not precede asymptomatic atrial fibrillation is detected; detecting atrial fibrillation usually random and heart palpitations or increased heart rate is not directly related, which may help explain why stroke occurs very surprised, but also a serious manifestation of atrial fibrillation.
Article, the researchers found that atrial fibrillation can thereby obtain test results through the use of new palm devices adsorbed on iPhone, the patient's electrocardiogram detected, may be within 30 seconds of detecting atrial fibrillation based iPhone ECG equipment; the use of such a simple methods to detect atrial fibrillation, you can use a special therapy to improve the poor prognosis, the researchers believe is reasonable and effective screening tool for detecting abnormal heart rhythms individual is very important for improving their health may also provide some help.