This can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and other complications. About 10.5 million Americans (about 5 percent of adults in the United States) live with afib.

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

The clot, called an embolus, blocks blood flow, starving vital organs, tissue or limbs of oxygen. An embolus in a coronary artery can cause a heart attack; in a cerebral artery, it can cause a ...

Chris Staniforth, 20, dies from blood clot. Aug. 2, 2011— -- The family of a 20-year-old British man who died as a result of a blood clot that formed after playing video games for up to 12 ...

Blood clot formation can contribute to life threatening events like strokes and heart attacks. Experts are interested in ways to decrease people’s risk for blood clots. A study found that ...

According to his care team, he had only hours to live. Dr. Daniel Hopkins and Dr. Ankit Chothani, who treated Solano at the Oklahoma Heart Institute, talked about the severity of his condition.

In afib, the heart’s upper chambers (the atria) beat irregularly, so the blood pools rather than being pumped out. This can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and other complications. [5] ...