Key result
Aggressive lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factor management may serve as an essential fourth pillar in atrial fibrillation care to improve patient outcomes and reduce arrhythmia burden.
Why the study?
Does lifestyle management improve outcomes and prevent or treat atrial fibrillation?
Does lifestyle management improve outcomes and prevent or treat atrial fibrillation?
Aggressive lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factor management is an essential fourth pillar in the management of atrial fibrillation.
Risk factor management bolsters AF outcomes as fourth pillar; leaves open optimal targets and implementation in practice.
INTRODUCTION: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia with a one in four lifetime risk in adults over the age of forty. Traditionally, AF management has focused on the three pillars of rate control, rhythm control and appropriate anticoagulation to reduce stroke risk. More recently, the importance of cardiovascular risk factor management in AF has emerged as a fourth and essential pillar with improved patient outcomes. AREAS COVERED: Here, we aim to summarize the current available evidence for the association between various modifiable risk factors and AF, and to identify optimal treatment targets to improve outcomes. Expert Commentary: Care for AF patients utilizing an integrated approach and aggressive lifestyle management may reduce the enormous burden of this arrhythmia.
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Gallagher et al. (2016) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. Lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factor management was evaluated. Aggressive lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factor management may serve as an essential fourth pillar in atrial fibrillation care to improve patient outcomes and reduce arrhythmia burden.
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