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Expert Video - What are the risk factors for atrial fibrillation?

In this video, Dr. Anne Curtis and Dr. Hiroko Beck discuss the major risk factors that can lead to atrial fibrillation. Some of the atrial fibrillation risk factors discussed include advancing age, high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity and being markedly overweight, and sleep apnea.

Expert Video - What are the risk factors for stroke?

In this video, cardiologists Dr. Anne Curtis and Dr. Hiroko Beck discuss the major risk factors that can lead to stroke. Major risk factors include advancing age, high blood pressure (hypertension), unhealthy cholesterol levels (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease), smoking, diabetes, as well as heart diseases including heart failure where the heart muscle gets weak.