[Gender related characteristics of clinical status and pharmacotherapy of patients with paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation].

Aim of the study was to elucidate gender related characteristics of clinical status and treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) hospitalized in a department of urgent cardiology of multiprofile clinical hospital. In a retrospective pharmacoepidemiological study we analyzed case histories of 114 men and 79 women hospitalized because of detected and electrocardiografically confirmed paroxysmal or persistent AF. Compared to men women were significantly older, among them there were significantly more individuals older than 75 years (<0.