Reliability of resting heart rate measurements in atrial fibrillation.

Anders P Persson¹, William F McIntyre², Taya Glotzer³, Jason G Andrade⁴, David Conen², Artur Fedorowski⁵, Alexandra Måneheim¹, Johan Economou Lundeberg¹, Tord Juhlin⁶, Albin Edegran⁷, Agnieszka Grotek-Cuprjak⁷, Jeff S Healey², Gunnar Engström⁶, Michiel Rienstra⁸, Linda S Johnson⁹

¹Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Department of Clinical Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden.

²Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

³Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, NJ, USA; Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ, USA.

⁴Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

⁵Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

⁶Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

⁷MEDICALgorithmics, Warsaw, Poland.

⁸Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

⁹Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Electronic address: linda.johnson@med.lu.se.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Heart rate (HR) control in atrial fibrillation (AF) is commonly guided by resting HR measurements, usually with 12‑lead ECG or in-office pulse palpation. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the reliability of resting HR measurements in AF patients with long-term ambulatory ECG and activity monitoring. METHODS: We included patients who had recorded a full-disclosure ambulatory ECG with a m…

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