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 ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation was well tolerated with mild adverse effects. The ...

"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.

The harnessing of electricity has played a pivotal role in human history and has exponentially expedited our growth as a species. Since becoming a household commodity in the late 19th century, ...

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 ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Background: Ventricular stunning refers to a transient mechanical dysfunction of the myocardium, typically manifesting in response to ischemic insults, reperfusion injury, inflammatory states, or ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, and commonly leads to morbidity and mortality as a result of thromboembolism events or heart failure. The ...

HIGHER likelihood of cardioversion success, without increased risk of adverse events, when dual direct-current cardioversion (DCCV) is performed in patients with atrial fibrillation and obesity, ...