Eight Signs You Might Have a Heart Arrhythmia

Research shows that about five percent of people in the United States suffer from a heart arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat. Some arrhythmias can be harmless – while others can be life threatening.

“The heart is a pump that supplies blood to the whole body and it’s driven by an internal electrical system that coordinates the beating. When that system develops some type of issue that interrupts the electrical flow, that’s known as an arrhythmia,” explains Meir Friedman, MD, cardiac electrophysiologist with Hartford HealthCare’s Heart & Vascular Institute at The Hospital of Central Connecticut.

There are many different types of arrhythmias, which can be classified into two groups – when the heart beats too fast and when it beats too slow.

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