In a nationwide cohort of Japanese working-age adults, new-onset atrial fibrillation was associated with a modestly faster annual decline in kidney function — measured as a decrease of 0.29 ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Guidelines recommend a trial of antiarrhythmic drugs before catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation. Whether pulsed field ablation (PFA) may be a preferred initial treatment is unclear.

A minimally invasive heart procedure may be a better first-line treatment than medication for people living with advanced forms of atrial fibrillation, according to a major international clinical ...

Older adults and working-age people whose atrial fibrillation is caught through screening, rather than through symptoms or ...