{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,15]],"date-time":"2025-04-15T08:54:12Z","timestamp":1744707252940},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA)","issue":"253","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,31]],"date-time":"2022-08-31T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1661904000000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Nepal Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Introduction: Atrial fibrillation is one of the commonest arrhythmias with an overall prevalence estimated to be 0.4-1% in the general population. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence of atrial fibrillation among patients admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine in a tertiary care centre.\nMethods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among patients admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine of a tertiary care centre from 01 March 2021 to 01 March 2022. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee (Reference number: IRC-478\/2021). Convenience sampling method was used. Data were collected from the hospital records using a semi-structured study proforma including demography, clinical presentation, laboratory investigations, electrocardiogram, 2-dimension echocardiography, and CHA2DS2VASc score. Point estimate and 95% Confidence Interval were calculated.\nResults: Among 27,980 patients, atrial fibrillation was found in 185 (0.66%) (0.58-0.77, 95% Confidence Interval). Among them 66 (35.67%) were in the age group of 61-70 years and 97 (52.43%) were females. Dyspnea was present in 149 (80.54%), palpitation in 137 (74.05%) and pedal edema in 117 (63.27%). Valvular atrial fibrillation was seen in 101 (54.59%) and non-valvular atrial fibrillation was seen in 84 (45.41%) patients.\nConclusions: The prevalence of atrial fibrillation was found to be similar when compared to other studies conducted in similar settings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.31729\/jnma.7858","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,2]],"date-time":"2022-09-02T08:05:32Z","timestamp":1662105932000},"page":"756-760","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Atrial Fibrillation among Patients Admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine in a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.31729","volume":"60","author":[{"given":"Surendra Prasad","family":"Shah","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ram Pratap","family":"Sah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sagar","family":"Panthi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rakesh Kumar","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rochana","family":"Acharya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Durga","family":"Neupane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Reecha","family":"Puri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sulaksha","family":"Poudel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lila Bahadur","family":"Basnet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"16919","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,31]]},"container-title":["Journal of Nepal Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/download\/7858\/4329","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/download\/7858\/4329","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,29]],"date-time":"2022-09-29T08:28:28Z","timestamp":1664440108000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/view\/7858"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,31]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"253","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,1]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31729\/jnma.7858","relation":{},"ISSN":["1815-672X","0028-2715"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1815-672X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"0028-2715","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,31]]}}}