What to Know About Sinus Arrhythmias, a Type of Irregular Heartbeat Lisa Marie Conklin
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What is a sinus arrhythmia?
Despite its name, a sinus arrhythmia has nothing to do with a common sinus infection. It is a disorder of the heart rate or heart rhythm.
A sinus arrhythmia (a medical term for an irregular heartbeat) means that the heart beats too fast or too slow, or irregularly.
Most often a sinus arrhythmia is temporary and nothing to worry about like the accelerated heartbeat you feel when you had an extra shot of espresso or slower heartbeat when you re sleeping.
What Are Heart Arrhythmias? Symptoms, Risk, and Treatments for Irregular Heartbeats Lisa Marie Conklin
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What is arrhythmia?
You can go months without even noticing your heartbeat. As long as it s pumping along as it should, your heart can be easy to ignore. But occasionally, you might notice something odd an irregular heartbeat, which is also called a heart arrhythmia. Your heart might beat a little faster, slower, or feel somehow off. The term arrhythmia refers to what is essentially a short circuit in the electrical system of the heart cells that coordinate contraction of the heart and the rate at which the heart beats, says Hugh Parker, MD, a cardiologist with UCHealth Heart and Vascular Center–Cherry Creek and assistant professor with the CU School of Medicine, Denver. It might feel like your heart is fluttering or skipping a beat. Or possibly it might feel like your heartbeat is very fast and pounding.
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Advances in early detection and treatment mean cancer survivors are living longer, but with that longevity comes a whole host of other health problems, including an increased risk of heart disease. Cancer and cardiovascular disease share many risk factors, such as obesity and tobacco use, and on top of that, many cancer treatments can cause damage to the heart, with certain types of cancer leading to a greater risk of heart disease.
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at how cancer may age the heart. Researchers found that adult male cancer survivors’ hearts appeared to be 8.5 years older than their actual age. The hearts of female cancer survivors appeared to be 6.5 years older.
These Are the 4 Stages of Heart Failure Lisa Marie Conklin
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What is heart failure?
Heart failure doesn t mean the heart has stopped beating. Quite simply, heart failure happens when the heart muscle can t pump enough blood to supply the body s needs. And it can happen to anyone even if you have a healthy lifestyle or never had a heart attack.
An inherited heart condition, or a poorly managed disease such as diabetes which can damage the heart, could nudge you into a higher risk status. What s not as easy to comprehend is that heart failure is multifaceted. It can be mild, with no symptoms, or it can be quite severe in which a patient needs a heart transplant to survive.
Is This Treatable Condition Causing Your High Blood Pressure?
Many doctors are overlooking this potential source of hypertension.
Anyone diagnosed with high blood pressure knows the standard advice: Lose weight, exercise more, change your diet.
But it’s likely that relatively few people have heard another suggestion: Make sure you’re treating your aldosteronism.
It turns out that this condition which results when the adrenal glands produce too much of the hormone aldosterone is sometimes at the root of high blood pressure.
Researchers at three schools the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University believe aldosteronism itself might be a lot more common in the general population than people think. But the researchers say relatively few doctors are testing for the disease.