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Synonyms for fibrillation
ˌfaɪ brəˈleɪ ʃən, or, esp. for 2 , ˌfɪb rə-fib·ril·la·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
fibrillationnoun
muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
fibrillationnoun
act or process of forming fibrils
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Typical post-stroke workup involves testing for many risk factors including carotid atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, hypercoagulable states, hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes among others, obstructive sleep apnea not only worsens all of these conditions but even with adjusting for other causes doubles the risk of stroke.
Patients who have atrial fibrillation who are not on an anticoagulant should discuss with their doctor if they could lower their risk of stroke without exposing themselves to excessive risk, by being started on anticoagulation.
If patients lose weight, they will feel better in general and they will have less risk of hypertension and diabetes and less atrial fibrillation, some effects of obesity, like inflammation, might not be completely reversible, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get people to lose weight.
The study detected a low rate of atrial fibrillation in the overall population(.052 %) but the rates were higher in older patients with 1.3 % in ages 55 to 64 and 3.14 % in age 65 or older, so future work should consider which populations of patients are most appropriate for this method of screening.
Atrial fibrillation is just the beginning, as this study opens the door to further research into wearable technologies and how they might be used to prevent disease before it strikes.
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