What causes atrial fibrillation? There are many potential causes of atrial fibrillation, like having a certain heart birth defect or a health condition that damages the heart's electrical system, such ...

Background and aims N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a well-established biomarker in clinical practice, particularly for heart failure, but its role in predicting atrial ...

Introduction: Hypertension (HT) and atrial fibrillation ... during study exams, hospital discharge codes, and death certificates. So, it may miss the paroxysmal AF, resulting in a lower AF incidence.

Patients with mechanical heart valves and those with moderate or severe mitral stenosis should be treated with vitamin K antagonists. Considering their superior safety compared with warfarin (10% ...

Objective To assess the association of gout with new-onset atrial ... study findings, due to the lack of data on sUA and inflammation markers (C reactive protein or others) in Medicare data, which ...

2 Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 3 Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China Objectives To investigate the characteristics of ...

8 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA Objectives Traffic and ambient air pollution exposure are positively ...

Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia in which the upper chambers of the heart the atria beat ... The features identified in this study are intuitive and can provide insights into ...

Clinicians will increasingly encounter heart rhythm data generated from consumer-grade devices. Consumer-grade smartphone-paired devices and smartwatches have very high sensitivity and specificity for ...

Catheter ablation is one of the most effective rhythm-control strategies for atrial fibrillation (AF). Conventional catheter ablation is performed ... shorter ablation times while being protective of ...

AHA's Life's Essential 8 and cardiovascular health Several data sources, including the NHANES survey, the UK Biobank, and the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), validated the recommendations of Life's ...

inflammation of the sac-like lining surrounding the heart. The side effect is rare but exactly how rare is still being debated. A major 2021 study in Israel put the rate at one in 50,000.