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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2020

Atrial Cardiopathy in the Absence of Atrial Fibrillation Increases Risk of Ischemic Stroke, Incident Atrial Fibrillation, and Mortality and Improves Stroke Risk Prediction.

Jodi D Edwards, Jeff S Healey, Jiming Fang, Kathy Yip, David J Gladstone

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Left atrial cardiomyopathy: association with atrial fibrillation and stroke recurrence.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026
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  6. Atrial cardiomyopathy: markers and outcomes.European heart journal · 2026
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  14. New pharmacological agents and novel cardiovascular pharmacotherapy strategies in 2024.European heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy · 2025
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  19. The relationship between atrial cardiopathy biomarkers and prognosis of patients with acute ischemic stroke after endovascular treatment.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jodi D EdwardsUniversity of Ottawa Heart Institute Ottawa Ontario Canada.
Jeff S HealeyPopulation Health Research Institute Hamilton Ontario Canada.
Jiming FangInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Toronto Ontario Canada.
Kathy YipKMH Labs ??? Canada.
David J GladstoneInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Toronto Ontario Canada.
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences · CAGlycemic Index Laboratories · CAPopulation Health Research Institute · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major, often undetected, cardiac cause of stroke. Markers of atrial cardiopathy, including left atrial enlargement (LAE) or excessive atrial ectopy (EAE) increase the risk of AF and have shown associations with stroke. We sought to determine whether these markers improve stroke risk prediction beyond traditional vascular risk factors (eg CHA

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overAtrial FibrillationAtrial Function, LeftAtrial RemodelingEchocardiographyElectrocardiographyFemaleHeart RateHumansIncidenceIschemic StrokeLongitudinal StudiesMaleOntarioPredictive Value of Testsatrial cardiopathyatrial fibrillationCHA2DS2‐VASc scorerisk predictionstroke

Identifiers

PMID32431188
PMCPMC7428995
OpenAlexW3027571418

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