European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2004
European Heart Journal 2005 26(2):110-111; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi056
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European Heart Journal vol. 26 no. 2 © The European Society of Cardiology 2004; all rights reserved.
Atrial fibrillation: mortality, morbidity, and money; is that all? Importance and variability of burden measurement
Department of Medicine-Cardiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 228 287 5507; fax: +49 228 287 1598. E-mail address: th.lewalter@uni-bonn.de
This editorial refers to Temporal variability of atrial tachyarrhythmia burden in bradycardiatachycardia syndrome patients
by L. Padeletti et al., on page 165
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Primary endpoint selection in atrial fibrillation (AF) therapy trials is currently under critical debate. Health economists promote the evaluation of therapy efficacy only in terms of the three big Ms: Mortality, Morbidity, and Money. From our perspective, this can only be correct when a therapeutic approach has found its optimum or cannot further increase its efficacy. In addition, even in this case, the three big Ms should, at
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