(InvestigateTV) \u2014 There\u2019s a good chance you or someone you know is living with atrial fibrillation or AFib. <\/p>\n
The American Heart Association says 5 million people currently live with the condition. <\/p>\n
Patients often describe AFib as feeling like their heart is flip-flopping or skipping beats, while others may have no symptoms and only discover they have it because of a smart watch or medical exam. <\/p>\n
Cardiologists prescribe blood thinners to reduce the risk of blood clots and stroke in AFib patients. <\/p>\n
However, the medication comes with a high risk of serious bleeding and bruising. <\/p>\n
Reporter Jen Picciano shows us how an implanted device can treat the condition. <\/a><\/p>\n Find more health content from InvestigateTV by clicking here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Watch InvestigateTV content on <\/b>Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire Devices<\/b><\/a> or find the <\/b>InvestigateTV YouTube channel to subscribe for more.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(InvestigateTV) \u2014 There\u2019s a good chance you or someone you know is living with atrial fibrillation or AFib.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519492999063652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}