Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee daily led to a significant drop in atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter in patients with sustained AF compared with those who abstained from coffee and caffeine, ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) involves an irregular (often rapid) heart rhythm and affects up to one in three people during their lifetime. Coffee is traditionally considered to be pro-arrhythmic (and ...

Atrial fibrillation is the most common chronic arrhythmia. It is characterized by erratic atrial electrical activity with atrial rates of 400 to 600 beats per minute. The P wave is absent on the ...

Background The PR interval is a ubiquitous parameter available to all clinicians. Studies on associated risk have been ...

This work shows the two independent structures of cardiac amyloids formed by non-native atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) dimers extracted from atrial fibrillation patients. These data point at dimeric ...

Sports cardiologist Rachel Lampert reviews the ProAFHeart study on atrial fibrillation in elite endurance athletes and provides tips on how to manage the arrhythmia in avid exercisers.