Aspirin can also be used as a long term treatment for those with a history of heart attack and stroke, or who have peripheral arterial disease, stable angina or atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart rhythm.
Mr Flood suffers from an irregular heart rhythm condition called atrial fibrillation.
If Xarelto is not approved to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer could benefit if their drug, Eliquis, does reach the market.
Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the anti-clotting drug Xarelto rivaroxaban to reduce the risk of stroke in people who have abnormal heart rhythm non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
Eliquis was the first anti-coagulant to prove that it reduced the risk of death compared to warfarin, which has been the standard of care for preventing strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, for seven decades.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disturbance, with over half a million sufferers in the UK. It increases the risk of a person having a stroke by five times and doubles the risk of death.
Xarelto is already FDA-approved to reduce the risk of DVTs and PEs from occurring after knee or hip replacement surgery (July 2011), and to reduce the risk of stroke in people who have a type of abnormal heart rhythm called non-valvular atrial fibrillation (November 2011).
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Sometimes, however, these waves become horribly distorted and make the heart beat erratically, a condition called cardiac fibrillation.
The results of the current trial, presented by Halperin at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association, focused on patients with atrial fibrillation, a condition that increases the risk of stroke fivefold and afflicts 2 million Americans.
The cause in about half the cases is ventricular fibrillation, an electrical disturbance in the heart that is most responsive to a shock from an AED.
Non-valvular atrial fibrillation refers to atrial fibrillation in patients who do not have significant problems in their heart valves.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in more than 2 million Americans and is one of the most common types of abnormal heart rhythm.
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