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Editorial
. 2020 Dec;6(14):1855-1857.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2020.10.010.

Conduction Slowing: Association or Causation in Atrial Fibrillation

Seungyup Lee  1 , Jayakumar Sahadevan  2
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Editorial

Conduction Slowing: Association or Causation in Atrial Fibrillation

Seungyup Lee et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2020 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; cardiac surgery; conduction disorders; heart disease; sinus rhythm.

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Conflict of interest statement

Author Disclosures This work was supported in part by grants R01HL146463 (Dr. Lee), and R21 HL140417 (Dr. Sahadevan), from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and by the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation (Dr. Lee).

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