The autonomic nervous system as a piece of the mechanistic puzzle linking sleep and atrial fibrillation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiology, Angiology, Intensive Care Medicine, cNEP, Cardiac Neuro- and Electrophysiology Research Consortium, EVK Düsseldorf, Kirchfeldstrasse 40, 40217, Düsseldorf, Germany. c.mey@web.de.
• ² Institute of Neural and Sensory Physiology, cNEP, Cardiac Neuro- and Electrophysiology Research Consortium, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. c.mey@web.de.
• ³ Division of Cardiology, Angiology, Intensive Care Medicine, cNEP, Cardiac Neuro- and Electrophysiology Research Consortium, EVK Düsseldorf, Kirchfeldstrasse 40, 40217, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁴ Institute of Neural and Sensory Physiology, cNEP, Cardiac Neuro- and Electrophysiology Research Consortium, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.