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Pavel Osmancik

Cardiologist

Aug 5, 2026

0:43
Pavel, talk to us about the background, what you did, and what you found.
0:47
Uh, with regard to the backgrounds, know that obesity is very often in patients with atrial fibrillation.
0:53
And if you look at the patient population in large randomized trials such as CABANA, EAST, TOP, and all of them, the, the median BMI was thirty.
1:02
It means half of the patients were obese.
1:04
And, uh, the clinical question that we try to answer is our study was whether the treatment of obesity in combination with antiarrhythmics, uh, is as effective as catheter ablation.
1:19
Because in the past, it's known that catheter ablation is superior to antiarrhythmics.
1:24
It was proven in a lot of trials, and the, the results of all the trials were similar.
3:31
And what did you find?

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