Abstract:Introduction:
Atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines are heavily predicated on assessing the severity of symptoms experienced by individual patients when selecting either rate or rhythm control strategy. While the severity of symptoms can be highly variable, it remains unclear if race-ethnicity influences AF symptoms and quality-of-life (QoL). We sought to determine whether race-ethnicity modulates severity of AF symptoms, QoL and response to therapy.
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