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Healthcare News: Hospitalized patients with new-onset AF likely to have AF reoccur, study finds

Approximately 33% of patients who experienced a first-time atrial fibrillation (AF) episode while hospitalized for noncardiac reasons had additional AF episodes up to one year after being discharged, according to a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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