When some people receive an atrial fibrillation diagnosis, their first question is whether medication and surgery are really necessary. Can…
Somewhere between 3 million and 10.5 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, an erratic heartbeat caused by faulty electrical signaling in…
Although atrial fibrillation (“A-fib”) is a serious and even dangerous condition, it also happens to be quite treatable. Today’s heart…
Recent decades have seen a blossoming of the science around controlling the dangerous form of irregular heartbeat known as atrial…
If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, you probably have several urgent questions. “Does this mean I’m going to be…
When first told that they have atrial fibrillation, many people begin wondering what they might have done to bring on…
Atrial fibrillation (or “A-fib”) is an irregular heart rhythm in the upper chambers of the heart that’s closely associated with…
If you’ve been told that you have atrial fibrillation (or “A-fib”), you may have noticed that you only experience its…
Atrial fibrillation, also known as “A-fib,” is a type of heart arrhythmia in which the electrical signals that regulate contractions…
In 2024, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, released data estimating that some 10.5 million Americans…or 4.5% of…
To understand bradycardia (low heart rate), you first need to know what a normal heart rate is—for an adult at…
In 2015, the mother of former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie died less than an hour after her husband of 56…
While the Internet has put valuable information at our fingertips, it has also exposed us to alternative facts and pseudoscience…
You have no symptoms that indicate anything is wrong with your heart—yet you still might have silent coronary artery disease…
Chronic inflammation has gotten a lot of press in recent years, as researchers establish associations between it and numerous health…
