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The misplaced frustration in Sierra and colleagues’ recently published letter1 left me perplexed.
They target the primary composite outcome (PCO) in the Catheter Ablation versus Standard Conventional Therapy in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Atrial Fibrillation (CASTLE-AF) trial, noting the PCO of all-cause mortality or hospitalisation for worsening heart failure occurred in 28.5% of the catheter ablation (CA) group versus 44.6% of the medical therapy (MT) group after a median follow-up of 37.8 months (HR: 0.62; 95% CI 0.43 to 0.87).
Sierra and colleagues’ frustration with p values …
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Contributors MM is the sole author and guarantor.
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Competing interests None declared.
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