Journal
EUROPACE
Volume 23, Issue -, Pages 46-51Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euaa424
Keywords
Atrial fibrillation; Screening; Management; Mobile health; Integrated care
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Early detection of atrial fibrillation is crucial for initiating timely management and reducing the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Therefore, strategies and mHealth approaches for early AF detection are essential for guiding AF treatment promptly.
Current atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines recommend screening for AF in individuals above 65years or with other characteristics suggestive of increased stroke risk. Several mobile health (mHealth) approaches are available to identify AF. Although most wearables or ECG machines include algorithms to detect AF, an ECG confirmation of AF is necessary to establish a suspected diagnosis of AF. Early detection of AF is important to allow early initiation of AF management, and early rhythm control therapy lowered risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes among patients with early AF aged >75 or with a CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc score >= 2 and cardiovascular conditions in the EAST-AFNET 4 study. Strategies for early AF detection should be always linked to a comprehensive work-up infrastructure organized within an integrated care pathway to allow early initiation and guidance of AF treatment in newly detected AF patients. In this review article, we summarize strategies and mHealth approaches for early AF detection and the transition to early AF management including AF symptoms evaluation and assessment of AF progression as well as AF risk factors.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available