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2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 75, Opens Up About Health After He ... - AOL

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   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 75, sits down with Prevention to share his atrial fibrillation diagnosis and experience. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a common heart condition that causes irregular heartbeat.

3. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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   1940. Overall life expectancy: 62.9 Women: 65.2 Men: 60.8 The United States began the ’40s on an upswing, with life expectancy up sharply from 58.5 years in 1936, when the nation was still ...

4. Study reveals how long people with dementia live after diagnosis

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   Researchers examined all studies between 1984 and 2024 which reported on survival or nursing home admission for people with dementia. A total of 235 studies reported on survival among more than 5. ...

5. Stroke - Wikipedia

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   Those with atrial fibrillation have a 5% a year risk of stroke, and those with valvular atrial fibrillation have an even higher risk. [130] Depending on the stroke risk, anticoagulation with medications such as warfarin or aspirin is useful for prevention with various levels of comparative effectiveness depending on the type of treatment used ...

6. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Based on symptoms, blood tests, genetic tests [2] Differential diagnosis: Asthma [1] Treatment: Medications, lung transplant, liver transplant [2] Medication: Bronchodilators, inhaled steroids, antibiotics, intravenous infusions of A1AT protein [2] Prognosis: Life expectancy ~50 years (smokers), nearly normal (non-smokers) [3] Frequency: 1 in ...

7. Cardiology - Wikipedia

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   In Europe and North America, as of 2014, atrial fibrillation affects about 2% to 3% of the population. [50] Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter resulted in 112,000 deaths in 2013, up from 29,000 in 1990. [26] Sudden cardiac death is the cause of about half of deaths due to cardiovascular disease or about 15% of all deaths globally. [51]

8. This Heart Attack Condition Is 3 Times More Common Than We ...

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   The study found that 6.8 percent of those patients had an Afib diagnosis. That’s over 10.5 million adults—a number that’s almost three times higher than the previous estimate they had: 3.3 ...

9. Roemheld syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Diagnosis of Roemheld syndrome usually begins with a cardiac workup, as the gastric symptoms may go unnoticed, and the cardiac symptoms are frightening and can be quite severe. After an EKG , Holter monitor , tilt table test , cardiac MRI , cardiac CT , heart catheterization , electrophysiology study , echocardiogram , and extensive blood work ...