SANTE-AF

To do this, we aim to carry out a large-scale trial with hundreds of people who have atrial fibrillation (AF). But medical trials are expensive - funding often runs to millions of pounds. So first we need to find out if it's actually feasible to carry out that large-scale trial. For instance, if people with AF don't like acupuncture or nutritional therapy, they might not enrol in the trial, or they might not finish a course of treatment - which means a large-scale trial would waste time and money as it wouldn't be able to reach reliable conclusions... If the data from the feasibility study support it, we aim to make an application for funding and carry out the large-scale trial… and the large-scale trial will test whether acupuncture and nutritional therapy can change quality of life and symptom levels in people with atrial fibrillation. This is the first step on a carefully-tested, thoroughly planned journey to produce a reliable answer to that question!... The Santé-AF feasibility..