Estimated Age-specific Prevalence of AFib, Data from 4 Population-based Surveys
Figure 4[4] looks more specifically at the correlation of increasing age and increasing prevalence of AFib; it can be seen that an upward inflection in prevalence occurs at approximately 60-64 years of age, and another upward inflection occurs at approximately 75 years of age.[5]
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