Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among older Americans—yet research into CVD treatments typically is conducted on younger people. Problem: Treatments that are safe...
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Open-Heart Surgery
Learning that the cause of your chest pain is a blockage in the arteries of the heart can be frightening! But the good news is...
How to Reduce Your Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Naturally
When some people receive an atrial fibrillation diagnosis, their first question is whether medication and surgery are really necessary. Can the condition (an irregular, quivering...
Atrial Fibrillation Treatment in the Elderly
Somewhere between 3 million and 10.5 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, an erratic heartbeat caused by faulty electrical signaling in the heart. A-fib is especially...
Surgical Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation
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...
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,...
