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Feb 3 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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Cardiology Podcast - Cardiology From the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology

The data supporting early rhythm control is much weaker than my colleagues think for instance the East AF trial found better outcomes with early rhythm control compared to standard of care but these results are likely the result of performance bias not AFib suppression. The answer is randomization and long-term follow-up I think we're entering an era of cardiovascular medicine where it's going to be hard for any new therapy to budge outcomes like mortality because patients live so long. This makes cognitive outcomes a super important endpoint for AFib and all EP trials.

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