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To determine whether the onset, maintenance, and termination of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation were random events, we analyzed the total recorded duration of arrhythmia and the incidence of and number of patients with the onset, maintenance, and termination of this arrhythmia as hourly data and as hourly probabilities. A prominent circadian rhythm of the total duration of atrial fibrillation, \u224890% of which was well explained by a single cosinusoidal function, was detected with a nadir around 11\n            <jats:sc>am<\/jats:sc>\n            . Because the onset of the arrhythmia had little or no circadian rhythm, this finding was due to a diurnal pattern of maintenance and termination, both of which were well expressed by a double-harmonic density function. Maintenance showed a trough at 11\n            <jats:sc>am,<\/jats:sc>\n            and termination showed a peak at the same time, leading to the nonuniform duration of single episodes of atrial fibrillation throughout the 24-hour day.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            <jats:italic>Conclusions<\/jats:italic>\n            Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation showed a unique circadian variation that differed from the well-known pattern for acute cardiovascular events, a point that should be kept in mind when antiarrhythmic therapy is evaluated. 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