Arrhythmias
An arrhythmia is any disorder of your heart rate or heart rhythm, such as beating too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia), or irregularly... More »
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the major risk factors for stroke.1; ... In 1999, a total of 66,875 deaths with AF as a contributing cause occurred, resulting in an age-adjusted death rate of 24.7 per 100,000 population. 2; ... HEART RHYTHM FACTS & STATS;
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Electrophysiology Key Facts; Electrophysiology is the fastest growing of all the cardiovascular disciplines ... Arrhythmia Key Facts; Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the major risk factors for stroke ... Heart Disease Key Facts; Death rates for men from heart disease were 49 percent higher than for women...
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Cardiac arrhythmia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cardiac arrhythmia (also dysrhythmia ) is a term for any of a large and heterogeneous group of conditions in which there is abnormal electrical activity in the heart. The heart beat may be too fast...
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An arrhythmia is a change in the regular beat of the heart. The heart may seem to skip a beat or beat irregularly or very fast or very slowly. ... Does having an arrhythmia mean that a person has heart disease?
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The arrhythmia usually remained undetected by the technology of the day. Even when the tests did detect a problem, the doctor had few tools to deal with arrhythmias. Only a couple of drugs—digitalis to slow a fast heartbeat and quinidine to return an irregular beat to normal—were available at the time.
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Arrhythmia. What is It? ... Causes Of Arrhythmia ... All About Arrhythmia...
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Cardiac arrhythmia is the No. 1 killer, more so than lung, breast cancer and AIDS combined. ... Approximately 90.000 people die each year from an arrhythmia related condition – that’s 1 in every 650 people ... 120,000 individuals are mis-diagnosed with epilepsy when the majority are in fact suffering with a cardiac arrhythmia,
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A list of sites providing information on cardiac arrhythmias - their causes, their diagnosis, and their treatment. ... General cardiac arrhythmia links; Provides links to sites giving general information on heart rhythm disturbances...
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Cardiac arrhythmia is also known as dysrhythmia, this is when there is abnormal electrical activity going on in the heart. Going into ventricular arrhythmia is life threatening, but not always, however, these arrhythmia's can cause sudden cardiac arrest and even a stroke.
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