Stroke risk December 29, 2018 08:17PM |
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. (If you want to reduce your risk to that level, you need to have a left atrial appendage occlusion device inserted or to have your LAA surgically removed/closed.)
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Re: Stroke risk December 30, 2018 10:13PM |
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Do you know why afibbers are at a greater risk than non afibbers?
Re: Stroke risk December 30, 2018 10:43PM |
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GeorgeN
Here is a stroke risk calculator from UCLA. You can change different variables (including BP, diabetes, CVD & afib) and see how it impacts your risk <[www.uclahealth.org]
BTW on Carey's 5%/year - looks a little steep on some of the cases I ran. In one comparison, the 10 year risk went from 1.1% to 4.3% a very material increase, but not 5%/year.
Re: Stroke risk December 31, 2018 01:44AM |
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Carey
That's why I put it in parentheses. Just saying what you would need to do to reduce your risk to the same as someone without afib.
Re: Stroke risk December 31, 2018 07:44AM |
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Carey
No, it's not misleading. If you have afib, your stroke risk is about 5% per year on average, with that risk rising as your CHADS-Vasc goes higher (eg, the risk is 10% for a CHADS-VASC of 6). People without afib have about a 1% risk on average, so in fact it is about five times higher. If you take an anticoagulant, that cuts your risk roughly in half. It does NOT reduce it to the same level as someone without afib. (If you want to reduce your risk to that level, you need to have a left atrial appendage occlusion device inserted or to have your LAA surgically removed/closed.)
Sure, in sheer numbers people without afib have more strokes than people with, but that's just because only about 5% of the population has afib. You can't really compare the two groups in terms of raw numbers because the non-afib group is 20 times bigger.
Re: Stroke risk December 31, 2018 04:52PM |
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That's why I put it in parentheses. Just saying what you would need to do to reduce your risk to the same as someone without afib.
And I got that. Just wanted to make sure everyone else did.
We are an advanced site here, willing to offer advice sometimes even beyond what some EPs will. And that’s awesome, by the way. But part of me fears we might overwhelm newcomers with too much information at the outset. So I was only trying to “color comment” as it were.
Relax, folks! Not everyone needs their left atrial appendage (LAA) isolated. But if your EP tells you it either won’t work or won’t help you, be sure to check here first!
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katesshadow
Do those of you who have been diagnosed for years think about your Afib very often?
Because, right now it is ALWAYS in the back of my mind.....so depressing.
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katesshadow
Control just means the rate is not over 100, no matter how long it lasts?