Atrial fibrillation (afib) before age 70 was tied to a 21 percent higher chance of cognitive impairment, a recent study found ...

Atrial fibrillation (or "AFib"), which causes an irregular heart rhythm, affects far fewer Americans—recent estimates put it ...

St. David's in Austin is the first in country to use new dual catheter to fix heart flutter and AFib at the same time.

AF cases were defined by clinically diagnosed atrial fibrillation or flutter (ICD-10 code I48 and ICD-9 code 427.3). A detailed description of the GWAS data involved in this study is shown in Table 1.

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Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Propranolol and metoprolol are both beta-blockers, which are a class of drugs taken for heart conditions, including angina (chest pain), arrhythmias (heart ...

The primary study end point was atrial tachyarrhythmia (AT, a composite of AF and atrial tachycardia/flutter) recurrence during follow‐up, after an 8‐week blanking period. The secondary end points ...

Google's former HR chief wrote that he'd "never seen a large scale, systematic approach like this." While such lists aren't illegal, they are unusual, other employment and HR experts told BI.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two studies have significantly expanded the known genetic variants associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), identifying over 350 common DNA variants and rare ...

PubMed was queried for entries on AF and rurality: (“atrial fibrillation” OR “atrial flutter”) AND (“rural” OR “urban ... AF indicates atrial fibrillation; HR, hazard ratio; OR, odds ratio; and RR, ...