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May 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Heart palpitations and high blood
pressure are strong risk factors for a common heart rhythm disorder called
atrial fibrillation, a new study reports.
Atrial fibrillation increases a person’s risk of heart attack, stroke
and death. It was already known that high blood pressure is a risk factor
for atrial fibrillation, but, according to the researchers, this is the
first study to make a connection between atrial fibrillation and
palpitations, which are commonly felt as a rapid or strong irregular
heartbeat.
The study authors looked at data from nearly 23,000 people in Norway,
aged 25 to 96, who were followed for an average of 11 years. During that
time, atrial fibrillation occurred in 3 percent of women and 4.2 percent
of men.
Frequent palpitations increased the risk of atrial fibrillation in
women by 62 percent and in men by 91 percent. High blood pressure (which
was defined as a reading of 140/90 mmHg) nearly doubled the risk of atrial
fibrillation in women and increased the risk by 40 percent in men, the
investigators noted in a news release from the European Society of
Cardiology.
The researchers also found that risk factors for palpitations included
lifestyle issues such as drinking and smoking, and biological factors such
as age, blood pressure, diabetes and body mass index (a measurement based
on height and weight).
The study was published May 15 in the European Journal of Preventive
Cardiology.
Even though the association between palpitations and atrial
fibrillation remained strong after other risk factors were taken into
account, the researchers said they could not conclude with certainty that
palpitations directly caused problematic heart rhythm.
“However, in this case it is not unreasonable to propose a causal
relationship,” study first author Dr. Audhild Nyrnes, of the University of
Tromso in Norway, said in the news release.
More information
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about atrial fibrillation.
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