Cardiovascular science and technology provided the foundation for an unprecedented increase in life expectancy, which was sustained for nearly half a century, starting from 1970. The primary cause of lifespan increase by a decade is improved diagnostics and therapy of heart disease leading to the declining cardiovascular mortality. Cardiac bioelectric therapy was among the major contributors to the reduction of cardiovascular mortality. Classical examples of such lifesaving technologies are cardiac pacemaker, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and ablation of arrhythmias. However, regrettably, there is now an evidence of the reversal of this trend during the last decade, which necessitated doubling our efforts in developing a new generation of the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to treat heart disease.
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