Although atrial fibrillation (“A-fib”) is a serious and even dangerous condition, it also happens to be quite treatable. Today’s heart doctors have multiple options for...
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Atrial Fibrillation Medications
Recent decades have seen a blossoming of the science around controlling the dangerous form of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation or “A-fib”. Pioneering physicians...
Atrial Fibrillation and Life Expectancy
If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, you probably have several urgent questions. “Does this mean I’m going to be very sick? What does it...
Can Atrial Fibrillation Be Caused by Anxiety?
When first told that they have atrial fibrillation, many people begin wondering what they might have done to bring on the condition. Among other factors...
What Is the Main Cause of Atrial Fibrillation?
Atrial fibrillation (or “A-fib”) is an irregular heart rhythm in the upper chambers of the heart that’s closely associated with stroke risk. If you or...
Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms at Night
If you’ve been told that you have atrial fibrillation (or “A-fib”), you may have noticed that you only experience its symptoms—or experience them more strongly—at...
Atrial Flutter vs Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation, also known as “A-fib,” is a type of heart arrhythmia in which the electrical signals that regulate contractions of the heart muscles are...
What Is Atrial Fibrillation?
In 2024, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, released data estimating that some 10.5 million Americans…or 4.5% of the adult population…have atrial fibrillation,...
When to Worry About Low Heart Rate
To understand bradycardia (low heart rate), you first need to know what a normal heart rate is—for an adult at rest, normal heart rate is...
The Truth About Broken Heart Syndrome
In 2015, the mother of former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie died less than an hour after her husband of 56 years passed away, even though...
Cholesterol: Fake Debate Vs. Legitimate Questions
While the Internet has put valuable information at our fingertips, it has also exposed us to alternative facts and pseudoscience about many health conditions, often...
Could You Have Hidden Heart Disease?
You have no symptoms that indicate anything is wrong with your heart—yet you still might have silent coronary artery disease (CAD). Recent finding: Among 9,533 people...
