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Boston – Women are less likely to develop atrial fibrillation after heart surgery than men. However, the long-term mortality rate was higher in a cohort study in JAMA Network Open (2024; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.26865). Atrial fibrillation is a common complication of heart surgery. Of the 21,568 patients who underwent surgery at two centers in Boston between 2002 and October 2016, 8,499 (39.4%) were affected, men with 40.8%…