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Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) often coexist due to the common elements of the pathomechanism they share. The potential significance of the order these entities present in the same patient is ill-defined. Herein, we report our results from a nationwide database on the occurrence of various sequences AF and HF may present, the time delays between the two conditions and all-cause mortality associated with different scenarios.
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