Updates are available Erratum dated 2016-07-14

Article History

First Online: 12 August 2014

Change Date: 14 July 2016

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: In the version of this article originally published online and in print, 'Prevalence of AF' on the y-axis in Figure 1 was incorrectly labelled as being in units of x103instead of x106. Also, the section on 'Prevalence' in the main text incorrectly referred to an increase in AF from 8.8 million to 18 million in "Europe" rather than "the European Union". Both errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing financial interests.