• Magdalena Domek, Jakub Gumprecht, Yan-Guang Li, Marco Proietti, Wafa Rashed, Al QudaimiAhmedAAlThawra Hospital, Sana'a, Yemen., Janusz Gumprecht, Mohammad Zubaid, and LipGregory Y HGYHLiverpool Centre for ... more Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.Department of Cardiology, Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland.Aalborg T. less
• Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
• Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 2021 Mar 1; 51 (3): e13385.

IntroductionAtrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes mellitus (DM) constitute a heavy burden on healthcare expenditure due to their negative impact on clinical outcomes in the Middle East. The Atrial fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway provides a simple strategy of integrated approach of AF management: A-Avoid stroke; B-Better symptom control; C-Cardiovascular comorbidity risk management.AimsEvaluation of the AF treatment compliance to ABC pathway in DM patients in the Middle East. Assessment of the impact of ABC pathway adherence on all-cause mortality and the composite outcome of stroke/systemic embolism, all-cause death and cardiovascular hospitalisations.MethodsFrom 2043 patients in the Gulf SAFE registry, 603 patients (mean age 63; 48% male) with DM were included in an analysis of ABC pathway compliance: A-appropriate use of anticoagulation according to CHA2 DS2 -VASc score; B-AF symptoms management according to the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) scale; C-Optimised cardiovascular comorbidities management.Results86 (14.3%) patients were treated in compliance with the ABC pathway. During 1-year follow-up, 207 composite outcome events and 87 deaths occurred. Mortality was significantly lower in the ABC group vs non-ABC (5.8% vs 15.9%, P = .0014, respectively). On multivariate analysis, ABC compliance was associated with a lower risk of all-cause death and the composite outcome after 6 months (OR 0.18; 95% CI: 0.42-0.75 and OR 0.54; 95% Cl: 0.30-1.00, respectively) and at 1 year (OR 0.30; 95% Cl: 0.11-0.76 and OR 0.57; 95% Cl: 0.33-0.97, respectively) vs the non-ABC group.ConclusionsCompliance with the ABC pathway care was independently associated with the reduced risk of all-cause death and the composite outcome in DM patients with AF, highlighting the importance of an integrated approach to AF management.© 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Clinical Investigation published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Stichting European Society for Clinical Investigation Journal Foundation.

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