An irregular heartbeat can raise your risk for heart failure and stroke. With up to 6 million Americans estimated to have ...

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a fast and irregular heart rhythm that, left untreated, can lead to blood clots, stroke and ...

Do you know the signs of AFib? Dr. Jennifer Caudle joined Pete Scalia to explain the importance of monitoring your heart health and the potential risks of atrial fibrillation (AFib), including stroke.

and with antiquated technology from the 1960's ("Holter monitors") still widely used today, these devices only record 24-48 hours of heart data and can miss detecting AFib. However, newer medical ...

CAN YOU KNOW, CAUSE AN ABNORMAL HEART RATE OR ... FINGER HERE AND THEN MONITOR FOR THAT MANY SECONDS. AND THEN YOU HAVE A READING, WHETHER IT’S NORMAL SINUS OR AFIB AND TALK MORE ABOUT TREATMENT ...

“Atrial fibrillation is often undiagnosed and can increase the risk of ischemic stroke, which is largely reversible by oral anticoagulation,” said lead author Renato Lopes, M.D., Ph.D., a ...

An abnormal heart rhythm, also called an arrhythmia, is when your heart beats too fast, too slow, or irregularly. Here’s ...

Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to usual care, but that did not lead to a reduction in hospitalizations due to stroke ...

A study led by Duke Clinical Research Institute found that wearable, long-term heart monitors detected 52% more atrial fibrillation cases compared to usual care. However, this increase did not result ...

Screening people in primary care with a wearable heart monitor developed by iRhythm was able to increase diagnoses of atrial fibrillation (AFib) by 52%, although it did not result in a reduction ...