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Your heart improvising jazz when it was hired to keep the beat.
means An irregular heartbeat — too fast, too slow, or just out of rhythm — caused by a glitch in the heart's electrical signaling.
from From Greek 'arrhythmia' meaning 'lack of rhythm,' built from 'a-' (without) plus 'rhythmos' (rhythm, measured motion). The same Greek root gives us 'rhythm' itself — so this word is literally the state of having none, diagnosed and borrowed intact by medical Latin for the heart's lost beat.
- not always deadly
- many people live with it unnoticed for years
- caused by
- faulty electrical signals, not a weak heart
- caffeine link
- overstated, stress is usually the bigger trigger
- detection
- an ECG can catch it in seconds