What is the life span of someone with AFib? The mortality rate associated with atrial fibrillation has improved over the past 45 years – but only marginally. A longitudinal study found that atrial fibrillation reduces life expectancy by two years on average, a small improvement from the three ...
Doctors diagnosed her with hyperthyroidism, a condition where the thyroid gland produces excess thyroxine hormone. If left untreated, it could lead to life-threatening complications. "I am not someone who checks their heart rate randomly," Hendershot says. "So I'm very confident tha...
We also talked about how great it would be if we didn’t have to go through this to take care of the battery, and wondered why someone hadn’t invented a way to simply charge the battery by placing some sort of charging device on his chest on top of the pacemaker, sort of like cha...