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What is the normal heart rate for a 30 year-old man? My rate has been 117-137 beats per minute and up.
A resting heart rate in the range of 117-137 is excessive. The usual rate is in the 60 to 80 beats per minute range, depending upon physical conditioning. Frequent causes for an are fever, acute illness and anxiety. Other, more serious causes, include anemia, an excess of thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism), heart defects or disease, and abnormal connections between arteries and veins.

You should not assume your condition is normal or insignificant without an appropriate medical evaluation.

White-coat hypertension” is recognized as a common cause of an elevated blood pressure reading in the absence of sustained high blood pressure. For whatever reason, some people become inordinately anxious and tense in the setting of a doctor’s office, and their body’s reaction may include a temporary elevation in blood pressure. Continue reading →

WPW syndrome (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome) is derived from the last names of the doctors who first described it. WPW is associated with episodes (paroxysms) of rapid heartbeat known as paroxysmal tachycardia.

People with WPW syndrome have abnormal connections in the conducting tissue of the heart, called accessory pathways, that lead to premature stimulus (excitation) of Continue reading →

Your heart has four chambers. The upper two receiving chambers are called atria and the lower two chambers are called ventricles. In the congenital heart disorder atrial septal defect (ASD), the wall (septum) separating the two atria doesn’t fully develop and has a hole in it. (See graphic below.) This defect is three times as common in girls as in boys, and also is more common in people with Down syndrome. Continue reading →

-What is the appropriate aspirin dose for those worried about heart disease? I have high cholesterol and my father died at 49 of a heart attack.-

You ask a straightforward question for which the answer is much more complicated. The first question is not what dosage but whether one should take aspirin at all because of concern about heart disease. The short answer is, “It depends.” Continue reading →

-What’s an A-V fistula and what’s the standard practice for correcting one? It was found in the right groin 2 weeks after an angioplasty was performed. -
A fistula is an abnormal connection between two adjacent structures or organs within the body, or from within the body to the outside. An A-V (arteriovenous) fistula refers to a connection between an artery and a vein. A-V fistulas may be congenital (present at birth), spontaneous, or the result of trauma. Continue reading →