Proportion of patients achieving 5 points or more improvement in AFEQT questionnaire summary score at 12 months by baseline summary score, treatment strategy, and sex.
Atrial Fibrillation
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
AFEQT indicates Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality of Life.When examined by AFEQT subdomains of symptoms, daily activities, and treatment concern, the pattern was similar for both sexes. Early QOL advantages accrued by the ablation arm narrowed in later follow‐up (Table When stratified by baseline AFEQT summary score into groups with better (≥70) and worse (<70) baseline scores, larger QOL benefit with ablation was seen for both sexes in the group with worse baseline AFEQT summary score. For women, the mean adjusted difference in this subgroup at 12 months with ablation was 7.6 (95% CI, 4.3–10.9). For men, the mean adjusted difference was 6.4 (95% CI, 3.3–9.4) (Table 