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ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Europe2024

Comparing CHA

Konsta Teppo, Gregory Yoke Hong Lip, Kari Eino Juhani Airaksinen, Olli Halminen, Jari Haukka, Jukka Putaala, Pirjo Mustonen, Miika Linna, Juha Hartikainen, Mika Lehto

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Article in The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Left atrial appendage occlusion in patients with end-stage renal disease: an individual patient-level meta-analysis.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025
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  7. De-risking Atrial Fibrillation: Refining Anticoagulation Decision-Making.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2026
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  12. Female sex-related stroke risk in patients with atrial flutter-comparison between CHA2DS2-VA and CHA2DS2-VASc scores.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026
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  16. Adverse events after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: a comprehensive nationwide cohort study.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Konsta TeppoHeart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Gregory Yoke Hong LipLiverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Kari Eino Juhani AiraksinenHeart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Olli HalminenDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Jari HaukkaFaculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Jukka PutaalaNeurology Department, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Pirjo MustonenHeart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Miika LinnaDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Juha HartikainenHeart Center, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Mika LehtoJorvi Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Contemporary data have shown a decrease in the ischaemic stroke risk associated with female sex in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We evaluated temporal trends in the predictive value of a non-sex CHA Methods: The FinACAF study covers all patients with incident AF between 2007 and 2018 in Finland from all levels of care. The CHA Findings: We identified 144,879 anticoagulant naïve patients with new-onset AF between 2007 and 2018 (49.9% women; mean age 72.1 years), of whom 3936 (2.7%) experienced ischaemic stroke during one-year follow-up. Based on both continuous and category-based NRIs, the CHA Interpretation: In 2007-2008 (when females had higher AF-related stroke risks than males), the CHA Funding: This work was supported by the Aarne Koskelo Foundation, The Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, The Finnish State Research funding, and Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District research fund.

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Atrial fibrillationCHA2DS2-VACHA2DS2-VAScRisk predictionStroke

Identifiers

PMID39171253
PMCPMC11337097

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