Arrhythmia Prevention: Here's What You Need to Know When Struggling with Heart Rhythm Disruptions

Arrhythmia Prevention: Here's What You Need to Know When Struggling with Heart Rhythm Disruptions
Photo is illustrative in nature. From open sources.
Topic news What to do if you have arrhythmia? How is it related to dinner and apnea? Cardiologist, arrhythmologist, DOCTOR of medical sciences, professor Andrey Pristrom answers these and other questions of the project "In the subject. Health".
- Let's talk about atrial fibrillation, the topic is serious. Here we need to first understand what causes the rhythm disturbance, and, based on this, act further.
 
Arterial hypertension is today the most common cause that leads to the development of atrial fibrillation. Because this is the most widespread diagnosis. Against the background of high blood pressure, there is an overload of the heart chambers, and this can contribute to the development of atrial fibrillation. Therefore, prevention here is pressure control. If we manage to do this, there are much fewer rhythm disruptions.

Obesity can also be the cause of atrial fibrillation. It is clear how to act here. Often, ALCOHOL consumption leads to rhythm disruptions - again, we are talking about the fact that this can be prevented by limiting or even completely stopping alcohol consumption.
Recently, by the way, the problem of rhythm disruptions in obese people can occur at night, when the person snores, has been very actively discussed. These are pauses in sleep, temporary cessation of breathing. Perhaps the patient himself does not know about it and will not say, but the one who is nearby should pay attention. Here, additional examination is needed, because there is another problem that has been actively developing and studying in recent years: obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), these pauses in breathing. During these pauses, intra-abdominal pressure increases, and this can disrupt the rhythm. On the one hand, we are trying to restore the rhythm. But if a person eats well in the evening, snores at night and there are these pauses, he will break down, no matter what we do.

Therefore, first of all, we must find out what led to the rhythm disruption

. Prepared based on BELTA video. Photos from open Internet sources.

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