Fire up the ECG app, pop your finger on the crown, and you’ll be guided through the reading. You’ll be notified whether the reading is regular or shows signs of atrial fibrillation, and an EKG ...

What is aFib? As the heart pumps blood through the body, it needs to do it with a regular beat. However, when the timer that ...

You’re more likely to develop AFib if you already have diabetes. No one knows for sure whether diabetes causes AFib directly, but it’s a big risk factor. And having both can take an extra toll ...

Heart failure: A weakened heart muscle can struggle to maintain a normal rhythm, leading to AFib. How AFib can affect your ...

Accounting for mortality as competing risk, the Afib burden trended numerically in favor of the GLP-1 RA group (HR 0.85, 95% CI 0.61-1.03), noted Varun Sundaram, MD, PhD, MSc, of Case Western ...

ANSWER: AFib, an irregular and often fast heart rhythm, is common and has several well-known risk factors that precipitate an event. The ER will have considered several of these, including thyroid ...

Until 2016, people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation had no alternatives other than taking blood thinners to prevent a stroke. But In 2016, the FDA approved a left atrial appendage closure device.

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine plan to give Apple Watches to thousands of people as part of a health study. The study is geared toward patients with atrial fibrillation, or AFib, the most ...