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- Wei Syun Hu and Cheng-Li Lin.
- School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
- Postgrad Med J. 2023 Jun 8; 99 (1171): 470475470-475.
PurposeThe relation between hospitalization timing and risk of clinical outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) with and without stroke remained undetermined.MethodsRehospitalization due to AF, cardiovascular (CV) death and all-cause mortality were the outcomes of interest in this study. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard model was applied to estimate the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI).ResultsWhile considering patients with AF hospitalized during weekdays without stroke as the reference group, patients with AF hospitalized during weekends with stroke had the risk of AF rehospitalization, CV death and all-cause death by 1.48 (95% CI 1.44 to 1.51), 1.77 (95% CI 1.71 to 1.83) and 1.17 (95% CI 1.15 to 1.19) times, respectively.ConclusionPatients with AF hospitalized during weekends with stroke had the worst clinical outcomes.© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Postgraduate Medical Journal. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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