Research Article

One-Year Clinical Outcome in Middle Eastern Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: The Jordan Atrial Fibrillation (JoFib) Study

Table 3

One-year outcome in the AF cohort and the two groups with NVAF and VAF.

EventAll AF patients Patients with NVAF Patients with VAF

All-cause death, (%)218 (11.4)210 (12.4)8 (5.1)0.01
Cardiovascular death, (%)146 (7.8)127 (7.4)3 (1.9)0.02
Stroke/systemic embolism, (%)84 (4.5)81 (4.7)3 (1.9)0.16
Major bleeding, (%)49 (2.6)46 (2.7)3 (1.9)0.74
Intracranial bleeding, (%)9 (0.5)9 (0.6)0 (0)0.69
Nonmajor clinically significant bleeding, (%)128 (6.9)107 (6.3)21 (13.5)0.001
Hospital admission for cardiac cause, (%)272 (14.6)247 (14.5)25 (16.0)0.70

AF: atrial fibrillation; NVAF: nonvalvular AF; VAF: valvular AF. Calculations were performed after excluding the group that lost follow-up () plus those who were enrolled as in-patients who died during the index hospitalization, and had no data at 1-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up ().