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SUBMITTER: Yang PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7907229 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20210225 1
Whether catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) improves survival and affects other outcomes in real-world heart failure (HF) patients is unclear. This study aimed to evaluate whether ablation reduces death, and other outcomes in real-world AF patients with HF. Among 834,735 patients with AF from 2006 to 2015 in the Korean National Health Insurance Service database, 3173 HF patients underwent AF ablation. Propensity score weighting was used to correct for differences between the groups. D ...[more]