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

September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, and one of Sanford Health’s own cardiologists is sharing his ...

A healthy heart is vital to a long life. Aging individuals recognize that link, and many take steps to protect their heart ...

New research suggests that atrial fibrillation (AFib), may affect thrice as many people as doctors had previously thought, ...

Take medication to lower your cholesterol if it can’t be managed with diet. Get treatment for any heart conditions that you have. And there are also surgical procedures that are sometimes necessary to ...

A new study has shown that a lower threshold for potassium supplementation after cardiac surgery saves patient costs and does not create any further risks of atrial fibrillation or other dysrhythmias.

The update emphasized integrated Afib care, first and most importantly ... form of sodium-substitution salt and/or a high potassium diet such as the DASH diet or the Mediterranean diet." ...

Opens in a new tab or window LONDON -- Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) produced real short-term improvements for people with atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), according to the first sham-controlled ...

"Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most commonly encountered heart conditions, with a broad impact on all health services across primary, secondary and tertiary care," says Guidelines Chair ...

Roughly one-third of the participants who developed atrial fibrillation already had coronary heart disease ... tens of thousands of cancer and heart disease cases Mediterranean diet could lower heart ...

Check out these do and don’t tips for managing afib. “There really isn’t a special diet for afib patients,” says Kelly Kennedy, RDN, the resident dietitian at Everyday Health.

New research links artificially-sweetened and sugar-sweetened drinks to a higher risk of atrial fibrillation. Atrial ...