Risk Factors for Dementia in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Predictors of dementia amongst newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients

“… 8 Factors that have been associated with increased dementia in AF include diabetes, increased duration of AF, higher CHA 2 DS 2 VASc score, decreased time in therapeutic anticoagulation and past CVA. 6 , 9 Most of the risk these results were derived from retrospective observational studies and registry data. In our study, we looked into various risk factors for dementia at the time of diagnoses which has been seldom studied before.…”