Medical Xpress August 13, 2024
Irregular heartbeats can raise a person’s risk of death even when they go unnoticed by traditional heart monitoring, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation.
Atrial fibrillation—rapid, irregular beating of the heart—is the most common type of irregular heart rhythm, affecting more than 2 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While atrial fibrillation can have deadly consequences, most don’t even know they have the condition, said Rod Passman, MD, the Jules J. Reingold Professor of Electrophysiology and senior author of the study.
“Almost everything we know about atrial fibrillation is gleaned from clinical atrial fibrillation, meaning that you walked into your doctor’s office with so much atrial fibrillation that your...
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