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Feeling a sudden fluttering in your chest can be understandably scary, especially if you’ve never dealt with it before. This can be a sign of atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib, which is an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia. It occurs when the upper chambers of the heart—the atria—are out of sync with the lower chambers and beat chaotically.
“You can think of AFib as an electrical short circuit that can be flipped under the right conditions that put stress on the heart,” says Sharonne N. Hayes, M.D., a cardiologist and the founder of the Women’s Heart Clinic at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. If you’re at high risk for AFib…
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