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ArticleEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2025

Atrial fibrillation screening for stroke prevention: an instrumental variables meta-analysis addressing varying participation rates.

Carl Bonander, Niklas Jakobsson, Katrin Kemp Gudmundsdottir, Emma Svennberg, Johan Engdahl

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Article in 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. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Key stakeholder views on atrial fibrillation screening: a systematic mixed-studies review and interpretive 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 · 2026
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  3. Incident heart failure in patients with screening-detected atrial fibrillation: a post hoc analysis of the STROKESTOP and STROKESTOP II studies.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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  4. Systematic, randomized atrial fibrillation screening using detailed phenotyping with a risk prediction model combined with patch electrocardiogram in a Swedish population aged 65 years or older: the CONSIDERING-AF trial.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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Carl BonanderSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Box 469, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1189-9950
Niklas JakobssonKarlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7143-8793
Katrin Kemp GudmundsdottirDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Emma SvennbergDepartment of Medicine Huddinge (MedH), Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6413-0870
Johan EngdahlDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1677-7215

Funding

Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare 2020-00962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Atrial fibrillation screeningMass screeningMeta-analysisRandomized controlled trial

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PMID39953895
PMCPMC11878575

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