November 2023 Br J Cardiol 2023;30(suppl 3):S3–S12 doi:10.5837/bjc.2023.s10
Ahmet Fuat, Chris Gale, Guy Lloyd, Helen Williams, Jim Moore, Trudie Lobban, Vijay Kunadian, Wajid Hussain
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Faculty
Faculty member
Affiliation
Professor Ahmet Fuat
PCCS Council Member and GPSI Cardiology, County Durham
Professor Chris Gale
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, University of Leeds
Dr Guy Lloyd
Consultant Cardiologist, Barts Heart Centre and Honorary Secretary, BCS
Helen Williams
National Specialty Adviser for CVD Prevention, NHSE & NHSI and Consultant Pharmacist for CVD, SE London CCG and UCL Partners
Dr Jim Moore
President of the PCCS and GPSI Cardiology, Gloucestershire
Trudie Lobban, MBE
Founder of the AF Association
Professor Vijay Kunadian
Professor of Interventional
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January 2021 Br J Cardiol 2021;28:11–3 doi:10.5837/bjc.2021.005
Patrick J Highton, Amit Mistri, Andre Ng, Karen Glover, Kamlesh Khunti, Samuel Seidu
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Introduction
Atrial fibrillation (AF) presents as an abnormal cardiac rhythm characterised by an irregular or abnormally fast (>100 bpm) resting heart rate (HR). AF risk factors include increasing age, diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease.1
AF increases stroke risk by roughly fivefold, greater than the risk elicited by hypertension, coronary artery disease or previous heart failure.2 AF-related stroke patients experience greater mortality rates, disability, hospitalisation time and healthcare costs relative to non-AF stroke patients.3
The East Midlands primary healthcare services comprise 19 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG
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