Stroke Stop Study: Editorial comment.

摘要

The paper by Friberg et al. in this issue of the journal describes an ongoing study to evaluate the use of intermittent external monitoring to detect 'silent' atrial fibrillation (AF) in a huge (25 000) group of 75 and 76 year olds in Sweden. The hypothesis is that if silent AF is detected early and treated medically with oral antic-oagulation (OAC), that strokes can be prevented, lives can be saved, and it will be proven that screening for silent AF is cost-effective.