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ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It is expected that within the next 20 years, 20-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation, usually just called AFib. People with AFib have a five-times ...

ZDNet writer Jason Perlow participated in the early testing of Apple’s Atrial fibrillation detection and, thanks to the data collected, identified a problem with his heart in 2018.

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 ...

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.

I went to the emergency room where they confirmed AFib, did a bunch of blood tests, and gave me a dose of IV diltiazem to slow my heart rate down. After about 5 hours, my heart rhythm went back to ...

Atrial fibrillation (afib) diagnosed before age 70 was tied to a 21 percent increased risk of future dementia in a large new study. Afib also raised the risk of future early-onset dementia ...

Most studies reporting CVD risk after HDP have focused on nonarrhythmic cardiovascular outcomes (eg, myocardial infarction/coronary artery disease, stroke, and heart failure). 7–9 Previous studies ...

BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and are associated with acute cardiac events in the peripartum period, as well as ...

Heartbeats are triggered by electrical impulses. A normal heart usually beats between 60 and 100 times per minute when you are at rest. But when you are in Afib, faulty electrical signals make the ...

Ablations are a popular way to treat AFib. A new procedure called the Farapulse is how Copley treated his AFib. It uses signals to zap the heart cells back into rhythm. MORE HEALTH-RELATED NEWS ...