Asymptomatic patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) benefit from early rhythm control therapy comparably to symptomatic patients. This is the result of a subgroup analysis of the EAST – AFNET 4 trial that was presented by Professor Stephan Willems, Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Hamburg, at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) on 27.08.2021 [1] and published in the European Heart Journal [2].