By Bunmi Sofola Recently scientific research has shown the risk of having heart failure or a stroke doubles in the first ...

Rhythm control drugs carry risks and require that your heart be monitored closely. It may also take at least a year for them to fully work. But they can be very effective.

When your heart shakes, it's a condition known as ventricular fibrillation (VF), an extremely serious cardiac arrhythmia that poses a life-threatening risk. During a VF episode, the heart's ventricles ...

Nearly 14 million Americans live with arrhythmias. Learn to identify the warning signs of these common heart rhythm disorders and the breakthrough treatments offering 94% success rates.

Research published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that broken heart syndrome was more common in women. But men had an 11.2% death rate from it, compared to 5.5% ...

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — You may be able to lower your risk for developing heart rhythm abnormalities by speeding up your walking pace. That’s according to a large new study published ...

New research explains how low levels of the electrolyte sodium in the blood can disrupt the timing of the heartbeat in patients taking widely used rhythm-control medications such as flecainide, which ...

A person’s heart rate may be lower when they are sleeping or higher during exercise. However, some people have an irregular heart rhythm that causes their heart rate to jump between high and low.

Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is an irregular heart rhythm that increases a person’s risk of stroke, heart failure, and even premature death. While many risk factors contribute to A-fib, one ...

You may be able to lower your risk for developing heart rhythm abnormalities by speeding up your walking pace.. That’s according to a large new study published Tuesday in the journal Heart ...