{"id":699805,"date":"2026-05-28T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:23:10","slug":"start-af-screening-at-55-for-indigenous-australians-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699805\/","title":{"rendered":"Start AF screening at 55 for Indigenous Australians, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunistic screening for AF should start 10 years earlier for Indigenous Australians, an expert panel has recommended.<\/p>\n<p>A systematic review published in The\u00a0Medical Journal of Australia\u00a0this week found that AF onset in Indigenous Australians started almost 16 years earlier on average compared with non-Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that the average age of a stroke was 51-62 for Indigenous Australians, compared with 62-78 for non-Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>The UNSW Sydney-led researchers then convened an expert panel, including cardiologists, epidemiologists and the chair of the 2018 AF guideline, which set the opportunistic screening starting age at 65 for all Australians.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opportunistic screening for AF should start 10 years earlier for Indigenous Australians, an expert panel has recommended. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137,18484,340887,44],"class_list":["post-699805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-indigenous-health","tag-neurology-stroke-and-tia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}