Cluster Individuals Based on Phenotype and Determine the Risk for Atrial Fibrillation in the PREVEND and Framingham Heart Study Populations.

Risk prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF) is of importance to improve the early diagnosis and treatment of AF. Latent class analysis takes into account the possible existence of classes of individuals each with shared risk factors, and maybe a better method of incorporating the phenotypic heteroge...

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Main Authors: Michiel Rienstra, Bastiaan Geelhoed, Xiaoyan Yin, Joylene E Siland, Rob A Vermond, Bart A Mulder, Pim Van Der Harst, Hans L Hillege, Emelia J Benjamin, Isabelle C Van Gelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5104331?pdf=render