“…To improve the prognosis of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common but sometimes can be insidious, cardiac arrhythmia, can be tricky, because data on prediction of mortality risk after the AF ablation procedure are lacking. Based on the Chinese Atrial Fibrillation Registry between 2013 and 2019, Dr Ma’s team 3 has developed an ABC-Death score including age, biomarkers, and clinical history to predict mortality in AF patients on therapy, which showed superior discrimination compared with the CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc score.…”