ArticleAdvances in therapy2025
Utility of Loneliness Status to Risk Stratification and Prediction of Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation.
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introductionSocioeconomic determinants are increasingly important factors in the integrated management of atrial fibrillation (AF). The impact of loneliness status on AF recurrence remains unclear.
methodsWe conducted a cohort study based on patients with AF undergoing catheter ablation from 2017 to 2022. The Chinese version of the De Jong Gierveld scale (DJGLS) for evaluating loneliness degree was used. Multivariate Cox regression was performed to identify the independent risk factors for recurrent AF. A multivariate model was used to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) when adjusting the known risk covariates in several kinds of subgroups.
resultsNine hundred fifty-five patients with AF and mean age > 65 years finished long-term follow-up. The AF cluster with severe/extreme loneliness tended to live alone according to DJGLS scores. Multivariate Cox regression showed that loneliness status is an independent risk factor for AF recurrence by using a multivariate model with adjustments of some covariates (moderate loneliness: HR 2.02; 95% CI 1.47-2.77, P < 0.001; severe/extreme loneliness: HR 5.28; 95% CI 3.56-7.84, P < 0.001). Survival analysis demonstrated that patients with AF with a more severe degree of loneliness are more likely to have AF recurrence in the long-term follow-up (log-rank test, P < 0.001). Restricted cubic spline (RCS) showed a mainly non-linear relationship between feeling lonely and AF recurrence (P overall < 0.001, P non-linear = 0.195). Receiver-operator characteristic curve (ROC) and time-dependent ROC curve indicated that the diagnostic value of loneliness status in predicting AF recurrence is stable and acceptable.
conclusionA more severe degree of loneliness was positively associated with increased risk of AF recurrence. Loneliness status showed an acceptable diagnostic value in discriminating AF recurrence as an independent tripartite variable.
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