心房颤动(简称“房颤”)和充血性心力衰竭(简称“心衰”)是两大心血管病难题。两者常紧密相连,相互促进,形成恶性循环,增加病死率。更令人遗憾的是,随着人类平均寿命的延长,房颤和充血性心衰有逐年增长趋势,尤其在高龄者中增加尤为明显。因此,如何作好房颤和心衰的防治具有极其 Atrial fibrillation (AF) and congestive heart failure (HF) are two major cardiovascular problems. Often closely linked to each other, promote each other, forming a vicious circle, increase mortality. Even more regrettable is that with the extension of average human life expectancy, AF and congestive heart failure have increased year by year, especially in elderly increased more significantly. Therefore, how to make the prevention and treatment of atrial fibrillation and heart failure have extremely extreme