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GuidelineEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2017

European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) position paper on how to prevent atrial fibrillation endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS).

Bulent Gorenek, Antonio Pelliccia, Emelia J Benjamin, Giuseppe Boriani, Harry J Crijns, Richard I Fogel, Isabelle C Van Gelder, Martin Halle, Gulmira Kudaiberdieva, Deirdre A Lane and 24 more

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In one paragraph

Guideline in Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Alcohol consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation: a pairwise and network meta-analysis.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026
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  3. The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2019).Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2019
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  5. 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2018
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  8. 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design: a report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS); and in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). Endorsed by the governing bodies of the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the American Heart Association, the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society, the European Heart Rhythm Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, and the Heart Rhythm Society.Heart rhythm · 2012
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  10. Comparing simultaneous hybrid ablation with stand-alone thoracoscopic surgical ablation for the treatment of non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: a prospective randomized controlled trial.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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  13. Pulsed field ablation: focused on atrial fibrillation ablation.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Bulent GorenekEskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey.
Antonio PellicciaInstitute of Sport Medicine and Science, Rome, Italy.
Emelia J BenjaminFramingham, MA, USA.
Giuseppe BorianiUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Harry J CrijnsMaastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Richard I FogelSt Vincent Medical Group, Indiana, USA.
Isabelle C Van GelderUniversity Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Martin HallePrevention and Sports Medicine, Technical University Munich, München, Germany.
Gulmira KudaiberdievaAdana, Turkey.
Deirdre A LaneUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Torben Bjerregaard LarsenAalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Gregory Y H LipUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Maja-Lisa LøchenUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Francisco MarínHospital Universitario Virgen De La Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.
Josef NiebauerParacelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Prashanthan SandersRoyal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.
Lale TokgozogluHacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Marc A VosUMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
David R Van WagonerCleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Laurent FauchierCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Trousseau, Tours, France.
Irina SavelievaSt George's University of London, London, UK.
Andreas GoetteSt. Vincenz-Krankenhaus Gmbh, Paderborn, Germany.
Stefan AgewallOslo University Hospital Ulleval, Ullevål, Norway.
Chern-En ChiangTaipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Márcio FigueiredoState University of Campinas, San Paolo, Brazil.
Martin StilesWaikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Timm DickfeldBaltimore, MD, USA.
Kristen PattonUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Massimo PiepoliPolichirurgico Hospital G. Da Saliceto, Romagna, Italy.
Ugo CorraIrccs Rehabilitation Medical Center, Veruno, Italy.
Pedro Manuel Marques-VidalUniversity Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Pompilio FaggianoUnita' Operativa di Policardiografia, Brescia, Italy.
Jean-Paul SchmidSpital Tiefenau, Bern, Switzerland.
Ana AbreuHospital de Santa Marta, Lisboa, Portugal.

Funding

Functional Genomics of Atrial Fibrillation in Human AtriaR01HL111314 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI BARNARD, JOHN, CHUNG, MINA KAY · 2012 to 2019
$6.1M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Risk Reduction BehaviorAtrial FibrillationCardiologyComorbidityConsensusGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansLife StylePreventive Health ServicesPreventive MedicineRisk FactorsTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID28175283
PMCPMC6279109

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