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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Atrial fibrillation occurs when action potentials fire very rapidly within the pulmonary veins or atrium in a chaotic manner. The result is a very fast atrial rate — about 400 to 600 beats per ...

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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 ...