Why Are All These Athletes Getting Atrial Fibulation?

Atrial fibrulation is an irregularly irregular beat. It can sometimes start beating so quickly that even the ventricle picks up that beat, and all of a sudden you've got this horrible heart rate. The question is why are all these athletes getting it? Ri cause it seems disproportionate, ight? So if you look at the population as a whole and say, how many forty year olds have a fibThe answeris like none. If you look at cyclists, it's like ten per centight? If you look on runners, it's a little bit lower. This is actually so an way. A guy by the name of james o'keefe, who's

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