A low-calorie diet and behavioral support program conferred weight loss in older participants with obesity and persistent atrial fibrillation but did not significantly improve AF symptoms vs. usual ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a kind of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. A problem with the electrical signals that control your heart’s pumping action causes it to beat too fast in a pattern that ...

There is a multitude of clinical uses of the 12-lead ECG. For example, the ECG may reflect changes associated with coronary artery disease, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, infiltrative disorders, ...

A man has thanked his Apple Watch for saving his life after it alerted him to a serious heart condition. Imani Dickson was at home when his smartwatch began sending health notifications, saying that ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach ...

1 Emergency Department, Ospedale Civile S M della Scaletta, Imola, Italy 2 Emergency Department, Ospedale S Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy Background Direct current cardioversion (DCC) has been shown ...

In a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 9, 2025, researchers examined the effect of coffee consumption on the recurrence of atrial fibrillation ...

"This is the first study to describe Emergency Physician's ability to [manage] both the procedural sedation and electrical cardioversion of class III and class IV obese patients," the authors wrote.

Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute at Stockholm South Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to: A Nergårdh Department of Cardiology, Stockholm South Hospital, S-118 83 Stockholm, ...

Cardioversion is a procedure used to restore a normal heart rhythm. It’s most often used to treat AFib, the most common type of heart arrhythmia. While some people have success with medications, most ...