Atrial fibrillation in UK South Asian hospitalized ischemic stroke patients: The BRAINS study

South Asian diaspora comprise one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the world yet data about atrial fibrillation (AF) in this demographic is understudied. Our aim is to identify differences in AF prevalence and treatment between South Asians and white British stroke patients. The UK arm of a...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-02, Vol.18 (2), p.e0281014-e0281014
Main Authors: Aurelius, Taylor, Ken-Dror, Gie, Sharma, Sapna D, Amlani, Sageet, Gunathilagan, Gunaratnam, Cohen, David L, Rajkumar, Chakravarthi, Maguire, Stuart, Ispoglou, Sissi, Balogun, Ibrahim, Parry, Anthea, Sekaran, Lakshmanan, Syed, Hafiz, Lawrence, Enas, Singh, Ravneeta, Hassan, Ahamad, Wharton, Chris, Javaid, Khalid, Goorah, Neetish, Carr, Peter, Abdus Sami, Eman, Sharma, Pankaj
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Anticoagulants
Anticoagulants (Medicine)
Asian people
Atrial fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation - epidemiology
Brain
Brain research
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiovascular disease
Care and treatment
Clopidogrel
Diabetes
Ethnicity
Female
Fibrillation
Heart
Humans
Hypertension
Ischemia
Ischemic Stroke - complications
Male
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine, Experimental
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority Groups
Patient outcomes
Patients
Population
Prospective Studies
Regression analysis
Research ethics
Risk Factors
Stroke
Stroke (Disease)
Stroke - etiology
Stroke patients
United Kingdom
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Summary:South Asian diaspora comprise one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the world yet data about atrial fibrillation (AF) in this demographic is understudied. Our aim is to identify differences in AF prevalence and treatment between South Asians and white British stroke patients. The UK arm of a prospective ongoing large international repository on stroke was analysed. Ethnic differences in AF prevalence and management in those with ischemic stroke were analysed. Of the 3515 individuals recruited with ischemic stroke, 1482 (men: 972, women: 510) were South Asian and 2033 (men:1141, women:892) of white British ethnicity. AF was present in 462 white British and 193 South Asians stroke patients, with South Asians displaying a lower prevalence of AF (South Asians: 13.0% vs white British 22.7%, P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0281014