Kinza Imran, Danish Ahmad, Shahw Ar Shakil.
Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):50-2.

Aim : To evaluate the incidence of acute fibrillation developing in the context of acute MI population . Methodology: This cross sectional study was carried out in department Cardiology Allied Hospital, Faisalabad under supervision of senior cardiologists. Patients who were presented with acute myocardial infarction selected for study, duration April 2016 to April 2017. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS software, mean and SD representation was done for continuous data like age and frequency (percentages %) representation were done for categorical variables like gender, hypertension, DM, onset of old AF and new AF. chi square test was applied to see association between variables. P value less than or equal to 0.05 was considered as significant. Results: A total of 214 patients were enrolled in this study. There was association between new onset of AF and age (p=0. 000). Old AF found in 17( 7.9%) in patients. The main outcome of this study was new outset AF, in our study, it was found in 40( 18.7%) patients. Conclusion: New onset of atrial fibrillation is a common type of Arrhythmia which is highly associated with ST segment elevation mayocardial infarction or acute mayocardial infarction.

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