{"id":9074,"date":"2022-08-18T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivecor.com.hk\/customers\/blog\/what-is-silent-atrial-fibrillation\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:05:12","slug":"what-is-silent-atrial-fibrillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/blog\/what-is-silent-atrial-fibrillation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is silent atrial fibrillation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atrial fibrillation can cause subtle symptoms to come and go. These signs can be so vague that you don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s caused by a heart attack. You may consider yourself unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p>But you may have atrial fibrillation and not even know it. Some people don&#8217;t have any symptoms at all. You may hear it called ambulatory atrial fibrillation.<\/p>\n<p>Why diagnosis of atrial fibrillation is important<\/p>\n<p>When you have this common irregular heartbeat, the upper chambers of your heart do not contract normally. Clots will form and then enter your brain to cause a stroke, so there&#8217;s a reason to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/product\/kardiamobile-6l-with-kardiacare\/\">ECG<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you notice any symptoms, you may be more likely to develop atrial fibrillation if you have any of the following risk factors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Older<\/li>\n<li>hypertension<\/li>\n<li>corpulent<\/li>\n<li>AFib family history<\/li>\n<li>binge drinking<\/li>\n<li>Previous heart surgery<\/li>\n<li>diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Thyroid problems<\/li>\n<li>Chronic kidney disease<\/li>\n<li>Lung diseases<\/li>\n<li>Sleep apnea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atrial fibrillation can cause subtle symptoms to come and go. These signs can be so vague that you don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s caused by a heart attack. You may consider yourself unhealthy. But you may have atrial fibrillation and not even know it. Some people don&#8217;t have any symptoms at all. You may hear it called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Mellica Ltd.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellica.com\/customers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}