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Four clinical features (prior stroke/TIA, advancing age, hypertension, diabetes) are consistent independent risk factors for stroke in atrial fibrillation patients. Prior stroke/TIA is the most powerful risk factor and reliably confers a high stroke risk (>5% per year, averaging 105 per year). Absolute stroke rates associated with other individual risk factors are difficult to precisely estimate from available data. |
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