Synonyms for atrial fibrillation
atri·al fib·ril·la·tion

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1. atrial fibrillationnoun

   Synonyms:
   AF, afib, a-fib

2. atrial fibrillationnoun

   A cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart.

   Synonyms:
   AF, a-fib, afib

Princeton's WordNet

1. atrial fibrillationnoun

   fibrillation of the muscles of the atria of the heart

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1. • Cardiac Arrhythmia
   • Fibrillation

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1. Karin Johnson:

   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.

2. Parveen Garg:

   We know a few prime risk factors that are very important, such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking, but it doesn't explain everything about why we get this condition, we're drawing a link between exhaustion and atrial fibrillation which really hasn't been described before.

3. Philip Nimoityn:

   Hiccups can be precipitated by a lot of factors, including various stresses, and so can atrial fibrillation. It’s possible that whatever set off one set off the other, but they are not necessarily directly related.

4. Mitesh Patel:

   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.

5. John Rumsfeld:

   The current study is a preliminary,' first step' evaluation of a potential relationship between exhaustion and atrial fibrillation, it is purely an observational study -- it can not conclude a causal relationship, or even which direction such a relationship would go.