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[TracyAdmin]

Every 15 seconds, someone suffers an AF-related stroke.

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Click the link below to view our resources and learn more about AF-related stroke:

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[john-boy-92]

Fortunately I'm still here to write and talk about it and I have full use of my limbs, but trust me, do whatever it takes to avoid a stroke.

[Ppiman]

This kind of statistic means so very little, though but causes anxiety nonetheless. Also, "AF-related" is confusing as a term to me. Are most of these people also elderly? Are they on anticoagulants? Even more confounding is that strokes can occur, it seems, in people whose AF is "cured", i.e. who are in sinus rhythm.

Steve

[theohappy in reply to Ppiman]

I don’t think the statistic of every 15 seconds relates to those on OAC’s. But to those not taking anything. A lot of people do not know they have AFib until they have a stroke. Then there are those ill-advised who are told aspirin adequate for prevention of strokes. As was one of those unfortunate people!

[Ppiman in reply to theohappy]

That was my understanding - thank you. Medical statistics are abused too widely in trying to gain a reader's attention. "Every third person in your car will get cancer" is one I recall from a UK charity.

Coming from a marketing background, I would not use statistics in this way myself.

Steve