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We sought to investigate how digoxin impacts mortality, in the full AFFIRM cohort and for various subgroups, by applying marginal structural modeling (MSM) to AFFIRM data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>MSM is a newer statistical approach, which estimates causal association in the absence of randomization. MSM more effectively accounts for time\u2010varying treatment and mitigates potential biases, in contrast to the two statistical approaches used in prior analyses of the AFFIRM data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among 4,060 patients in AFFIRM, 660 (16.3%) died during follow\u2010up. Digoxin was associated with significantly higher mortality in the full cohort (estimated hazard ratio [HR] 1.33, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.11\u20131.60, P\u00a0\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a00.002) and in 3,121 patients without HF (HR 1.36, 95% CI 1.07\u20131.72, P\u00a0\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a00.011). There was a trend toward higher mortality with digoxin in 939 patients with HF (HR 1.29, 95% CI 0.96\u20131.72, P\u00a0\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a00.090). Associations were nonsignificant in 463 patients with HF and left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) \u226540% and in 155 patients with EF \u226430%.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Digoxin is associated with significantly increased mortality among AFFIRM patients collectively, as determined by MSM statistical methodology. 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