Image: Pexels The team behind the Coffee and Real-time Atrial and Ventricular Ectopy trial found that people took 1000 more daily steps on average when they drank coffee. Though they also lost an ...

Born in the UK with a condition known as ectopia cordis, Vanellope underwent three major operations at Glenfield Hospital in ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

Ventricular ectopy and tachyarrhythmias are associated with increased mortality. Other risk factors of developing tachyarrhythmias are a prolonged QTc interval, heart rate variability and PR ...

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart. The ...

Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are a type of abnormal heartbeat that originates in the ventricles. They disrupt the regular rhythm and cause the sensation of either a skipped beat or ...

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 ...

Notable for their absence of structural heart diseases, they include a diverse group of diseases such as long QT syndrome, short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, early repolarization syndrome, ...

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