Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the study population as a function of age. *p < across groups. Solid bars = percentage of AF patients. Figure Legend:

Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography results in the study population. *p = 0.007; **p = compared with non-atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. % Myo fixed = % myocardium hypoperfused at rest (from summed rest score); % Myo ischemic = % myocardium ischemic (from summed difference perfusion score); % Myo stress = % myocardium hypoperfused at stress (from summed stress score). Solid bars = AF; open bars = non-AF. Figure Legend:

Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Unadjusted cardiac death (CD) rates in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with non-AF patients as a function of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography results. *p < abnl = abnormal; Mod-Sev = moderately to severely; MPS = myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography; % Myo Stress = % myocardium hypoperfused at stress (from summed stress score). Solid bars = AF patients; open bars = non-AF patients. Figure Legend:

Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Risk-adjusted cardiac death (CD)-free survival curves of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with non-AF patients. Solid lines = AF patients; dotted lines = non-AF patients. 1 = non-AF patients with normal myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (MPS); 2 = AF patients with normal MPS; 3 = non-AF patients with abnormal MPS; 4 = AF patients with abnormal MPS. Figure Legend:

Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Unadjusted cardiac death (CD) rates in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with non-AF patients as a function of left ventricular ejection fraction. *p = EF = ejection fraction. Solid bars = AF patients; open bars = non-AF patients. Figure Legend:

Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © The American College of Cardiology. All rights reserved. From: Prognostic implications of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44(5): doi: /j.jacc Incremental prognostic value of chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) in predicting cardiac death over clinical variables (*age, type of stress, resting heart rate, diabetes, and shortness of breath), nuclear variables (% myocardium hypoperfused at rest [% Myo fixed] and % myocardium ischemic [% Myo ischemic]), left ventricular ejection function ([LVEF] *including the interaction LVEF × shortness of breath). Added to all these most significant variables, AF provided additional significant gain in global chi-square, compared with the previous step. Figure Legend: