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Overweight men develop irregular heartbeat earlier than women
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 17 (ANI): Men beware! Overweight males develop a type of irregular heartbeat, known as Atrial fibrillation, about a decade earlier than women, reveals a recent study.
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Big women likelier to have wrecked heart rhythm
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 9 (ANI): Big women have a nearly threefold greater risk of atrial fibrillation than small women, according to a new research.
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Risk score tools can improve stroke prediction in atrial fibrillation pati
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 20 (ANI): A study finds that by combining two independent, scientifically-proven risk measurements, physicians can better predict a patient's irregular and often very fast heart rate risk of stroke or death.
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Turns out, antithrombotic therapy can't keep offbeat hearts from wrec
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Mar. 18 (ANI): If you are a low-risk atrial fibrillation patient, then you may want to steer clear of antithrombotic therapy as a recent study has suggested that it doesn't cut the chances of suffering a stroke within five years.
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New study to help reduce post-operative setbacks in cardiac patients
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 7 (ANI): A recent study estimates that up to six million Americans have a form of Atrial fibrillation (AF) and the
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