Prognosis of Older Adult Patients Suffering from Atrial Fibrillation and Hypokalemia.

In the present study, the incidence of hypokalemia in older adult patients with atrial fibrillation was 30.98%, which was higher than the incidence of hypokalemia in general hospitalized patients (20%) reported in previous studies, 5 indicating that as age increased, the incidence of hypokalemia showed an increasing trend. 6 In this study, serum creatinine levels in the hypokalemia group were significantly different from those in the normal blood potassium group, as determined by the statistical analysis of general data (the level of serum creatinine in the hypokalemia group was significantly lower than that in the

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