Atrial fibrillation has always been the little sister to its ventricular counterpart — but during the past decade, it has captured our attention, mainly because it is so common. Atrial fibrillation ...

Adult male SHR Izm s (n=24), obtained from the Disease Model Cooperation Research Association (Tokyo, Japan), were used to investigate remodeling-associated electrophysiological changes. To evaluate ...

Atrial remodeling has been observed in many cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, 1 myocardial infarction 2 and heart failure. 3 Recent studies 4, 5 have shown that metabolic syndrome can ...

Atrial fibrillation is caused by an abnormality in the heart’s electrical conduction system. It’s common — around 9 percent of people 65 and over have it. To understand A fib, as it’s often called, it ...

This week, we continue our discussion on atrial fibrillation (Afib), the most common electrical conduction abnormality of the human heart. It is proper that we devote enough attention to this heart ...

MANY common arrhythmias observed in both atria and ventricles are similar although the atrial types have a few important distinguishing features. Thus, so far as therapy is concerned, the atrial ...

It's easy to say two conditions are associated. Lots of things go together. It's much harder to claim one condition causes another. In the US and other Western countries, obesity and atrial ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --A new study finds a quarter of all post-menopausal women may develop irregular or rapid heartbeats, known as atrial fibrillation, with stress and insomnia being the leading ...