An 'astonishing' number of people in the UK have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in the last 10 years, the British Heart Foundation has said.
Without treatment it can significantly increase the risk of a blood clot forming inside theProfessor Sir Nilesh Samani, medical director at the BHF, said: “These figures show a quite astonishing rise in the number of people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
“Research has helped us understand the links between atrial fibrillation and stroke and that has spurred the efforts we have seen in recent years to identify people with this potentially dangerous“What remains troubling is the sheer number of people who are undiagnosed and unaware that they are living with a heightened risk ofNHS websiteThis is where the heart"feels like it's pounding, fluttering or beating irregularly, often for a few seconds or possibly a few minutes.
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