Anxiety sensitivity moderates prognostic importance of rhythm-control versus rate-control strategies in patients with atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure insights from the atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure trial

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-330

  Frasure Smith, Nancy ^a,b,c   Lespérance, Francois ^a,b,c   Talajic, Mario ^a   Khairy, Paul ^a   Dorian, Paul ^a   O'Meara, Eileen ^a   Roy, Denis ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Heart failure; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE AND RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PANIC; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANXIETY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84864304361     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.964122     Document Type: Article

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