Heart health leader OMRON Healthcare today issued an urgent health message across the U.S. to raise public awareness of ...

Heart rate control is a key way to manage atrial fibrillation. Doctors consider it one of the four pillars of AFib care, along with heart rhythm control, stroke prevention, and a healthy lifestyle.

Data collection occurred over a 20-week period, during which the wearable devices recorded heart rate intervals (n = 143,379,796) and physical activity levels (n = 23,704,307) at regular intervals ...

Results presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress showed that the higher AFib diagnosis rate over an average 15 months of follow-up – 5.0% vs 3.3% with standard care – was ...

For this reason, users susceptible to AFib should use a heart rate monitor that can detect these abnormalities. How does Fitbit’s AFib monitoring work? C. Scott Brown / Android Authority.

Sidhu said the smartwatch technology Kreis used can really help patients monitor their health. "Now I can monitor my heart rate, check if I feel like I'm having symptoms, if I'm having AFib ...

Wearable heart monitors helped to identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to traditional treatment, but that did not result in a decrease in hospitalizations due to stroke (1 ...

A wearable heart monitor raises the detection rate of the dangerous irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation (A-fib) by more than 50%, a new study finds. Top News .

If left untreated, Afib can lead to stroke, heart failure and premature cardiac death. But fortunately, Afib is treatable and, in some cases, preventable.

That monitor revealed that he had both a heart flutter and atrial fibrillation, or AFib, an irregular heart rhythm. Wright would need an ablation to stop the AFib and the flutter.

September is Atrial Fibrillation aka A-fib Awareness Month. Caitlin Massey is a nurse practitioner with Ascension Medical Group and she joined News On 6 at Noon to talk about this serious condition.