title: Atrial fibrillation: rate control is as good as rhythm control for some, but not all.
abstract: Four recent trials compared the strategies of rate control vs rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation. All of them found a rate control strategy to be equivalent to a rhythm control strategy in terms of primary outcomes, but the findings may not apply equally to all patients.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. chungm@ccf.org
authors.forename: Mina K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic