Ali, MD, MSCIAtrial fibrillation can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, ...

Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is an irregular heart rhythm that increases a person's risk of stroke, heart failure and even ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation are typically prescribed an anticoagulant, or blood thinner, to reduce the risk of stroke, but many may discontinue them or never receive a prescription due to ...

Heart rate control is a key way to manage atrial fibrillation. Doctors consider ... Your heart needs exercise, even when you're living with AFib. A few simple tips from WebMD can help you do ...

Saint Francis treated its first patient with pulsed-field ablation, which delivers pulsed electric fields to tissue to treat ...

But just seven years ago, and despite living with HIV for nearly half his life, Duffy was remarkably healthy, working in ...

Chuck's cycling journey living with AFib, from diagnosis to catheter ablation to recovery, read about living and riding with ...

Looking back, Kokomo resident Mike Beatty knew he had something as a teenager, but he couldn’t put a name to it. Whenever he’d overexert himself, he’d feel “different,” but it would go away with rest.

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) share risk factors and are bidirectionally associated. Several studies found higher risks of outcomes in individuals with both ...

Excessive drinking during holidays,festivals, weekends or parties could lead to ‘Holiday Heart Syndrome’ that could wreck your heartbeats and even cause stroke ...

The ground-breaking tool scours GP records to look for "red flags" which could indicate whether a patient is at risk of developing atrial fibrillation ... unaware they're living with the condition.

But what he was experiencing was atrial fibrillation, or Afib for short. In Beatty’s case, his heart the day he went into the hospital had to undergo electrical cardioversion to be “shocked ...