Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction"

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Medicine Section Department of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA.
² Data Coordinating Center Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA.
³ Department of Mathematics and Statistics Boston University Boston, MA.
⁴ Cardiology Division Department of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Boston, MA.
⁵ Cardiology Division Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA.
⁶ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study Framingham, MA.
⁷ Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA.
⁸ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Toronto General Hospital University of Toronto Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA.
¹¹ Cardiovascular Research Center Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA.

Comment

Rajalakshmi Santhanakrishnan et al. Circulation. 2016.

. 2016 Jun 7;133(23):e692-3.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.022835.

¹ Cardiovascular Medicine Section Department of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA.
² Data Coordinating Center Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA.
³ Department of Mathematics and Statistics Boston University Boston, MA.
⁴ Cardiology Division Department of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Boston, MA.
⁵ Cardiology Division Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA.
⁶ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study Framingham, MA.
⁷ Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA.
⁸ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Toronto General Hospital University of Toronto Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA.
¹¹ Cardiovascular Research Center Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA.

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Comment on

Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction.
Santhanakrishnan R, Wang N, Larson MG, Magnani JW, McManus DD, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT, Cheng S, Vasan RS, Lee DS, Wang TJ, Levy D, Benjamin EJ, Ho JE. Santhanakrishnan R, et al. Circulation. 2016 Feb 2;133(5):484-92. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018614. Epub 2016 Jan 8. Circulation. 2016. PMID: 26746177 Free PMC article.
Letter by Providencia and Lambiase Regarding Article, "Atrial Fibrillation Begets Heart Failure and Vice Versa: Temporal Associations and Differences in Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction".
Providencia R, Lambiase PD. Providencia R, et al. Circulation. 2016 Jun 7;133(23):e691. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.021563. Circulation. 2016. PMID: 27267540 No abstract available.

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