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Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia responsible for significant patient morbidity, including stroke, heart failure and intrusive palpitations.1 Obesity is well recognised as a contributor to AF incidence and symptom burden.2 Weight loss has been shown to reduce occurrence of AF and increase the likelihood of maintaining sinus rhythm after cardioversion or catheter ablation for AF.3–5 Although it has been demonstrated that weight loss can reduce AF burden in a trial setting, it is well recognised that motivation for sustained weight loss is low in a real-world population, and often any weight loss achieved is tempora

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