1. Rate-control versus Rhythm-control Strategies and Outcomes in Septuagenarians with Atrial Fibrillation 
Nasir Shariff, MD, Ravi V. Desai, MD, Kanan Patel, MBBS, MPH, Mustafa I. Ahmed, MD, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, Michael W. Rich, MD, Inmaculada B. Aban, PhD, Maciej Banach, MD, PhD, Thomas E. Love, PhD, Michel White, MD, Wilbert S. Aronow, MD, Andrew E. Epstein, MD, Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH 
The American Journal of Medicine 
Volume 126, Issue 10, Pages (October 2013)
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2. Figure 1
Absolute standardized differences comparing baseline characteristics of the subset of AFFIRM patients years of age with atrial fibrillation randomized to rate-control versus rhythm-control strategies, before and after propensity score matching.
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3. Figure 2
Kaplan-Meier plot for all-cause mortality among a propensity-matched subset of AFFIRM patients aged years with atrial fibrillation, by rate-control versus rhythm-control strategies. CI = confidence interval; HR = hazard ratio.
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4. Figure 3
Effect of a rate-control (vs rhythm-control) strategy on all-cause mortality in subgroups of propensity-matched subset of AFFIRM patients aged years with atrial fibrillation. CI = confidence interval.
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