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Mashup Score: 1FIND-AF - 5 month(s) ago
What is Atrial Fibrillation (AF)? Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. It is the most common disturbance of the heart rhythm and affects over a million people in the UK. Atrial fibrillation can cause palpitations, breathlessness and dizziness. Often atrial fibrillation causes no symptoms and for many people atrial fibrillation comes and goes…
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Mashup Score: 0Restoring and extending secondary prevention - 5 month(s) ago
Comprehensive response is needed, across healthcare and beyond The UK, like many European countries, is currently experiencing substantial excess mortality.12 The reasons for this are likely to be multifactorial, including persisting direct and indirect effects of covid-19, surges in flu and respiratory infections, significant pressures on NHS acute services, and reductions in secondary prevention as an inevitable part of the response to covid-19.345 At the start of the pandemic, as services swung necessarily towards the major new threat, it was predicted that the reduction in preventive care would probably cause subsequent indirect delayed mortality, but the immediate response to the pandemic was essential.6 Studies finding reduced take up of interventions such as antihypertensive drugs in the initial stages of the pandemic are therefore unsurprising.3 Considerable efforts are being made to restore secondary prevention and many other areas of medicine, but we need to …
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Mashup Score: 2
Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a fivefold increased risk of stroke. Oral anticoagulation reduces the risk of stroke, but AF is elusive. A machine learning algorithm (Future Innovations in Novel Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (FIND-AF)) developed to predict incident AF within 6 months using data in primary care electronic health records (EHRs) could be used to guide AF screening. The objectives of the FIND-AF pilot study are to determine yields of AF during ECG monitoring across AF risk estimates and establish rates of recruitment and protocol adherence in a remote AF screening pathway. Methods and analysis The FIND-AF Pilot is an interventional, non-randomised, single-arm, open-label study that will recruit 1955 participants aged 30 years or older, without a history of AF and eligible for oral anticoagulation, identified as higher risk and lower risk by the FIND-AF risk score from their primary care EHRs, to a period of remote ECG monitoring with a Zenicor-E
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In the #FINDAF pilot study we will determine the yields of #AFib during home ECG monitoring across #FINDAF predicted AF risk estimates, & establish rates of recruitment & protocol adherence in a remote AF screening pathway. Now operational in #Yorkshire https://t.co/WhFJImfL2n https://t.co/WsBmtRnU8c
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Mashup Score: 0
Objective Risk-guided atrial fibrillation (AF) screening may be an opportunity to prevent adverse events in addition to stroke. We compared events rates for new diagnoses of cardio-renal-metabolic diseases and death in individuals identified at higher versus lower-predicted AF risk. Methods From the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink-GOLD dataset, 2 January 1998–30 November 2018, we…
Source: Open HeartCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 3
Objective Risk-guided atrial fibrillation (AF) screening may be an opportunity to prevent adverse events in addition to stroke. We compared events rates for new diagnoses of cardio-renal-metabolic diseases and death in individuals identified at higher versus lower-predicted AF risk. Methods From the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink-GOLD dataset, 2 January 1998–30 November 2018, we…
Source: Open HeartCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Prediction of short-term atrial fibrillation risk using primary care electronic health records - 10 month(s) ago
Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) screening by age achieves a low yield and misses younger individuals. We aimed to develop an algorithm in nationwide routinely collected primary care data to predict the risk of incident AF within 6 months (Future Innovations in Novel Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (FIND-AF)). Methods We used primary care electronic health record data from individuals aged…
Source: HeartCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1'Astonishing' rise in Britons with an irregular heartbeat - these are the main warning signs - 11 month(s) ago
The British Heart Foundation says the number of people with atrial fibrillation has topped 1.5million for the first time – and at least 270,000 more are unaware they have the condition.
Source: Sky NewsCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Prediction of short-term atrial fibrillation risk using primary care electronic health records - 12 month(s) ago
Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) screening by age achieves a low yield and misses younger individuals. We aimed to develop an algorithm in nationwide routinely collected primary care data to predict the risk of incident AF within 6 months (Future Innovations in Novel Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (FIND-AF)). Methods We used primary care electronic health record data from individuals aged…
Source: HeartCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Job Advert - 12 month(s) ago
Leeds Teaching Hospitals The closing date is 04 May 2023 Job summary Research Nurse (Adult Cardiology) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Permanent position with fixed funding to 31/12/2024 to support the BHF Find AF trial after which the post holder will either be deployed within Cardiology Research or the wider Research & Innovation…
Source: beta.jobs.nhs.ukCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Job Advert - 12 month(s) ago
Leeds Teaching Hospitals The closing date is 04 May 2023 Job summary Research Nurse (Adult Cardiology) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Permanent position with fixed funding to 31/12/2024 to support the BHF Find AF trial after which the post holder will either be deployed within Cardiology Research or the wider Research & Innovation…
Source: beta.jobs.nhs.ukCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
#FINDAF https://t.co/6g0EyO04Ti