Differences in AFEQT questionnaire summary score between treatment groups.
Atrial Fibrillation
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
Blue is women and yellow is men. AFEQT indicates Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality of Life.As was seen in the overall CABANA cohort, the larger mean QOL improvements from ablation over drug therapy reported at 12 months in the group with baseline AFEQT summary score <70 narrowed over the final 3 years of follow‐up. This reduction in benefit from ablation appears to be attributable mostly to improvements in mean AFEQT summary score in the drug therapy arm (Table When examined at the patient level, a 5‐point or more improvement in the AFEQT summary score at 12 months was more likely in the ablation group compared with the drug therapy group for women, but only among patients whose baseline score was <70 (Figure 