Although increasing uncontrolled risk factor burden was associated with a numerical trend toward higher AF recurrence, this did not reach statistical significance; this may reflect limited power, and the finding should be interpreted as hypothesis-generating rather than evidence of no clinically relevant gradient.
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Atrial fibrillation recurrence after rhythm control: gaps in outpatient risk factor management in a single-centre retrospective cohort study.
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In Cox regression, patients with >3 risk factors had a higher estimated risk of recurrence compared with those with 0-1 risk factors (HR 1.81, 95% CI 0.96-3.40), although this did not reach statistical significance.