Vagal atrial fibrillation: What is it and should we treat it?

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A Comparison of Rate Control and Rhythm Control in Patients with Recurrent Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

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Subclinical atrial fibrillation and the risk of stroke

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Epidemiologic assessment of chronic atrial fibrillation and risk of stroke: The fiamingham Study

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Atrial Fibrosis: Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance in Atrial Fibrillation

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ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation—Executive Summary

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The Effects of Physical Activity on Serum C-Reactive Protein and Inflammatory Markers

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Association of Atrial Fibrillation and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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Rhythm or rate control in atrial fibrillation—Pharmacological Intervention in Atrial Fibrillation (PIAF): a randomised trial

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Pulmonary Vein Denervation Enhances Long-Term Benefit After Circumferential Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

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Aggressive Risk Factor Reduction Study for Atrial Fibrillation and Implications for the Outcome of Ablation

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Randomized trial of rate-control versus rhythm-control in persistent atrial fibrillation

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Atrial Fibrillation Pathophysiology

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Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation With Antiarrhythmic Drugs or Radiofrequency Ablation: Two Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses

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Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Atrial Fibrillation

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Mortality, morbidity, and quality of life after circumferential pulmonary vein ablation for atrial fibrillation

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Effect of Weight Reduction and Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Management on Symptom Burden and Severity in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Initiated by Non–Pulmonary Vein Ectopy

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Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia in a Population-Based Study: The Rotterdam Study

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Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Mortality, Stroke, and Medical Costs

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Stroke with intermittent atrial fibrillation: incidence and predictors during aspirin therapy

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The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study

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Cost of an emerging epidemic: an economic analysis of atrial fibrillation in the UK

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Initiation of Atrial Fibrillation by Ectopic Beats Originating From the Superior Vena Cava

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Effects of Atrial Dilatation on Refractory Period and Vulnerability to Atrial Fibrillation in the Isolated Langendorff-Perfused Rabbit Heart

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Cardiac arrhythmogenic remodeling in a rat model of long-term intensive exercise training

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Catheter Ablation of Long-Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

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Differing sympathetic and vagal effects on atrial fibrillation in dogs: role of refractoriness heterogeneity

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Patients Treated with Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Have Long‐Term Rates of Death, Stroke, and Dementia Similar to Patients Without Atrial Fibrillation

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Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Autonomic Nerves for Prevention of Vagal Atrial Fibrillation

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Sinus node disease and arrhythmias in the long-term follow-up of former professional cyclists

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Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea

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Molecular Basis of Downregulation of G-Protein–Coupled Inward Rectifying K+Current (IK,ACh) in Chronic Human Atrial Fibrillation

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Cholinergic Atrial Fibrillation in a Computer Model of a Two-Dimensional Sheet of Canine Atrial Cells With Realistic Ionic Properties

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Exercise training reduces resting heart rate via downregulation of the funny channel HCN4

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Atrial Fibrillation Begets Atrial Fibrillation

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Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention

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Autonomic nerve activity and atrial fibrillation

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Pathophysiologic basis of autonomic ganglionated plexus ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation

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Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease

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Pulmonary Vein Region Ablation in Experimental Vagal Atrial Fibrillation

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Feasibility study of endocardial mapping of ganglionated plexuses during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

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Cellular Signaling Underlying Atrial Tachycardia Remodeling of L-type Calcium Current

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Task Force 7: Arrhythmias

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