Avoiding Stroke: A Continuous Monitoring Challenge

Published Date: 04th April 2020

Publication Authors: Hill AM

Extract

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Risk factors such as advancing age, hypertension, cigarette smoking, atrial fibrillation (AF), diabetes mellitus and prior cardiovascular disease are well established and provide significant opportunities through public health policy to reduce both the disease burden and the socio-economic cost of stroke care. In approximately 30% of cases, the aetiology is undetermined despite standard investigations. A proportion of these cryptogenic events will be induced by paroxysmal, “silent” AF. However, establishing the relative burden of silent paroxysmal AF upon stroke risk has been challenging, particularly as continuous cardiac monitoring has developed faster than the ability to contextualise the findings upon stroke risk.

Gumprecht, J; Domek, M; Hill, AM; Lip, GYH. (2020). Avoiding Stroke: A Continuous Monitoring Challenge . Cerebrovascular Diseases. epub Mar 20.

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