(Boston)—In the U.S., atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime.

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Queen Sonja of Norway was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 11 following a flare-up of her atrial fibrillation while skiing.

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The upper pulmonary veins (PVs) are responsible for the majority of atrial fibrillation (AF ... Furthermore, in certain patients AF triggers can be detected outside the PVs, and local denervation ...

Looking back, Kokomo resident Mike Beatty knew he had something as a teenager, but he couldn’t put a name to it.

However, the guidelines note that abstaining from coffee could reduce symptoms in people for whom caffeine triggers or ...

But what he was experiencing was atrial fibrillation, or Afib for short. In Beatty’s case, his heart the day he went into the hospital had to undergo electrical cardioversion to be “shocked ...