Obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation (AFib) are two conditions that share a potentially deadly link. Having one increases the odds of developing the other, and together, the breathing difficulties of sleep apnea ...
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Shopping. Traveling. Planning family gatherings. The stress of the holiday season can make you feel like you need to slip some spirits into your hot cocoa. And at celebrations, there's often plenty of alcohol around.
Nov 20, 2025
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A minimally invasive heart procedure to correct irregular heart rhythms called catheter ablation may reduce the risk of stroke enough that some patients can discontinue blood thinners, according to a preliminary late-breaking ...
Nov 10, 2025
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People with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and obesity may have fewer episodes of AFib after ablation if they take the diabetes medication metformin in addition to standard care, according to a preliminary, late-breaking science ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Radiation therapy may offer a comparable and potentially safer alternative to repeat catheter ablation for patients with severe abnormal heart rhythms that can no longer be controlled with medication.
Sep 29, 2025
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An AI tool could help cardiologists identify and target cells that trigger arrhythmia in patients with ventricular tachycardia, a serious heart condition.
Aug 26, 2025
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Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, or AF for short, finds a pooled data analysis of the available ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be rehospitalized for heart ...
Jul 17, 2025
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For patients with atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation reduces the risk of ischemic stroke at more than 30 days, mortality, and heart failure hospitalization, while surgical ablation only reduces stroke risk, according ...
Jul 7, 2025
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Irregular heartbeats affect more than 4 million Americans, and for many, the treatment is cardiac ablation—a procedure that uses long, flexible catheters inserted through blood vessels to modify small areas of the heart and ...
Jun 4, 2025
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