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Estimating Bilateral Atrial Function by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: July 20, 2022
Association between symptoms, affect and heart rhythm in patients with persistent or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation:
Kevin M Wheelock1, Anna Kratz2, Sangeeta Lathkar-Pradhan2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine.
Abstract:
Symptoms in atrial fibrillation are generally assumed to correspond to heart rhythm; however, patient affect - the experience of feelings, emotion or mood - is known to frequently modulate how patients report symptoms but this has not been studied in atrial fibrillation. In this study, we investigated the relationship between affect, symptoms and heart rhythm in patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation. We found that presence of negative affect portended reporting of more severe symptoms to the same or greater extent than heart rhythm.
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