In patients with persistent AF who underwent cardioversion, a cup of joe per day lowered the risk of recurrences at 6 months.

Coffee is associated with increased alertness and faster heart rates, so people with atrial fibrillation – the most common ...

After years of advice to avoid coffee, a rare clinical trial suggests a moderate daily habit may cut recurrent atrial fibrillation after cardioversion. New evidence challenges long‑held guidance to ...

A cup of caffeinated coffee each day may lower the risk of an irregular heart rhythm coming back after treatment. That is the ...

Questions about the safety of vernakalant remain The incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased globally, in part because of modifiable risk factors.1 Acute atrial fibrillation, especially at a ...

A multicenter randomized clinical trial found that moderate caffeinated coffee intake after cardioversion significantly lowered the recurrence of atrial fibrillation or flutter compared with ...

ROME, ITALY — Using the factor Xa inhibitor edoxaban (Savaysa/Lixiana, Daiichi Sankyo) to anticoagulate patients about to undergo electrical cardioversion for their atrial fibrillation (AF) seems ...

A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

A recent clinical trial demonstrated that consumption of caffeinated coffee averaging one cup a day was associated with less ...

I recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation in a 24-year-old man with new-onset chest pain, irregular palpitations, and heart rate >170 beats per minute. The patient has no history of drug or tobacco ...

Heart arrhythmias are usually harmless, but some can be life threatening. Treatments help correct your heart rate to prevent serious health issues. When the electrical impulses that affect your ...