I’m a generally healthy 60-year-old man. Last week, I had some abdominal cramping, and while I was on the toilet, I noted the abrupt onset of a ...

I'm a generally healthy 60-year-old man. Last week, I had some abdominal cramping, and while I was on the toilet, I noted the abrupt onset of a ...

My question is whether the abdominal cramps could have caused me to go into AFib. — I.J.M.

With heart rate monitors now standard in smartwatches and fitness trackers, electrocardiograms (ECG/EKG) have rapidly become a common feature in health wearables. The technology is designed to ...

"Atrial fibrillation is an incredibly common disease, yet we have very limited pharmacologic therapies because we still have a primitive understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved," said ...

Figure 1. Defining atrial fibrillation (AF) drivers. AF drivers are defined as localized sources of fast, repetitive activity from which activation propagates and breaks down into fibrillatory ...

Table 4. Confusion matrix of ECG-based cardiac arrhythmia detection. Further, if atrial flutter is considered together with atrial fibrillation the results become 99.5% sensitivity and 87.6% ...

In Friday's Health headlines, it's heart month, and we're talking about AFib, portable EKG devices, and how stress this season can be hard on the heart. In Friday's Health headlines, it's heart ...

“When there’s a hole in the heart, either at the atrial or ventricular level, the heart just can’t work efficiently,” explains Benjamin Barnes, a pediatric cardiologist at the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas ...