Researchers report that structural or functional abnormalities within the heart’s left atrium, with or without symptoms, may increase a person’s risk of developing dementia later in life by 35%. The ...

Structural or functional abnormalities within the heart's left atrium, with or without symptoms, may increase a person's risk of developing dementia later in life by 35%, according to new research ...

Stroke is a frequent and dreaded complication of atrial fibrillation. But predicting which of the estimated six million Americans with a-fib are at highest risk has long challenged physicians weighing ...

An abnormality in the heart's left atrium known as atrial cardiopathy is already linked to stroke and atrial fibrillation, but it may be independently linked to dementia as well. Can this heart ...

New York, Aug 11 (IANS) Structural or functional abnormalities within the heart’s left atrium, with or without symptoms, may increase a person’s risk of developing dementia later in life by 35 per ...

The correct diagnosis is sinus tachycardia, left atrial abnormality, and QRS (electrical) alternans, right axis caused by left posterior fascicular block (Figure 2). The rhythm is regular at a rate of ...

Q: I had an EKG done in 2009 that said I had possible left atrial enlargement. Another EKG done at a different hospital in the same month said I had left atrial abnormality. I saw a cardiologist who ...

Medscape: How does CKD cause atrial fibrillation? In the ARIC paper, the study authors suggested several ways in which this might happen, including through uncontrolled hypertension, activation of the ...