Masanaru Sawada, Naoto Otsuka, Koichi Nagashima, Ryuta Watanabe, Yuji Wakamatsu, Satoshi Hayashida, Shu Hirata, Moyuru Hirata, Sayaka Kurokawa, Yasuo Okumura
BACKGROUND: The effects of the patient's disease awareness on the management of postablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) are unknown. METHODS: One hundred thirty-three AF patients undergoing an initial ablation were given a disease awareness questionnaire with a score of 16 points (8 points about AF in general and 8 points about oral anticoagulants) for the Jessa Atrial Fibrillation Knowledge Questionnaire (JAKQ) before and 1-year-after ablation. We divided them into the poor disease awareness group and good disease awareness group according to the median value (75%) of the total JAKQ score about AF in general, and compared the baseline patient characteristics and the 1-year changes in the JAKQ score, medication adherence, blood pressure, laboratory data, echocardiographic parameters, and AF/atrial tachycardia (AT) recurrence rate between the two groups...
February 2024: Journal of Arrhythmia