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Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volume 35, Issue 7, June 2000 DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00635-5

Prospective randomized comparison of antiarrhythmic therapy versus first-line radiofrequency ablation in patients with atrial flutter

Andrea Natale, Keith H Newby, Ennio Pisanó, Fabio Leonelli, Raffaele Fanelli, Domenico Potenza, Salwa Beheiry and Gery Tomassoni

Quality of Life and Symptoms Scores in the Drug Therapy Grouplegend

	Pretreatment	Posttreatment (6 mo)	Posttreatment (12 mo)	Overall p Value
Sense of well being	1.9 ± 0.4	2.0 ± 0.4	2.1 ± 0.3	NS
Function in daily life	2.1 ± 0.4	2.1 ± 0.3	2.3 ± 0.3	NS
Palpitation	3.2 ± 0.6∗	2.0 ± 0.5	2.1 ± 0.7	< 0.05
SOB with exercise	3.4 ± 0.4	3.2 ± 0.4	3.0 ± 0.5	NS
Feeling weak	2.9 ± 0.3	3.0 ± 0.4	3.1 ± 0.4	NS
QOL total score	29 ± 3	28 ± 6	31 ± 5	NS

↵∗ p < 0.001. Pretreatment versus posttreatment 6 months and posttreatment 12 months. All other comparisons did not show statistical significance.
↵legend QOL = quality of life overall score; SOB = shortness of breath.