Atrial fibrillation: rate control is as good as rhythm control for some, but not all.
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.
Chung
Mina K
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Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. chungm@ccf.org
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