Sex differences and AFib: New study flips conventional wisdom (Women have it 50% more often, by height)

Medical Xpress / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / JAMA Cardiology ^ | August 31, 2022 | Christine Albert, MD, MPH

[ConservativeMind]

Science has long shown that men are at greater risk for developing atrial fibrillation (AFib) than women; but it has never been fully understood why women would be protected. New research challenges this conventional wisdom by demonstrating that women—when height is accounted for—have a 50% higher risk of developing abnormal heart rhythm disturbance when compared to men.

The novel findings suggest medical practitioners must remain vigilant in promoting AFib prevention—and early interventions—among both female and male patients.

"This is the first study to show an actual flip in the risk of atrial fibrillation," said Christine Albert, MD, MPH.

As Albert explains, the taller an individual is, the more at risk they are for AFib. This is why women have been shown to have a lower risk of the disease, since they tend to be shorter than men.

"Our study, however, surprisingly suggests that if a man and a woman have the same height, the woman would be more likely to develop AFib," said Albert. "Now the question has changed: Instead of why are women protected, now we must seek to understand why women are at a higher risk."

Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of abnormal heart rhythm and, without treatment, can lead to stroke or heart failure. Once a woman is diagnosed with AFib, she is more likely to experience one of these adverse consequences than a man, making AFib prevention exceedingly important in women.

Patients diagnosed with the condition can be treated with blood thinners and outpatient procedures such as cardioversion or ablation, or heart surgery, but women are less likely to undergo invasive treatments for AFib such as ablation.

The most effective prevention strategies against AFib in men and women, Albert says, include maintaining a healthy weight, controlling blood pressure, limiting alcohol use and exercising moderately.

[Mom MD]

i was not debating the risks and benefits of the vaccine , which we can certainly discuss if you wish. I was merely commenting on those who make everything on nearly every thread about the vaccine. For the record (unlike the slander you will read around here) I have never pushed anyone to become vaccinated. There were those whom the vaccine seemed to make sense for and those it did not. Everyone had to assess their own risk benefit ratio when it came out.

[gas_dr]

Ever notice how a new Q thread magically appears when there is a an increase in the amount of pushback from us untouchables and irredeemables? Why on the latest chapter in the Q theory textbook and threads even some of the devout students were surprised that there was a new one so soon.

I guess when the world view of the theory and axiom one espouses is challenged that running home to the echo chamber somehow makes it feel better. It’s almost like a safe space.

Anyway, as usual your use of logic and actual evidence draws the venom of theory that has become dogma in the eye of the student. Sad, you see?

🙏

[tom paine 2]

bump

[spankalib]

Demonstrations...when where and how do you do them?

Any on video?

What do you mean by "attaches" (fem) & doesn't (masc).

Genuinely curious!

(and if anyone needed an "about page" on FR, it's you FRiend!)

[ConservativeMind]

I find your posts an always welcome and interesting read.

[tired&retired]

I agree. I did the J&J as I needed to fly internationally. If I were a child bearing age female, forget it.

[tired&retired]

I’m getting ready to go public with it. Will be published by the end of the year.

I do a demonstration where I hold an object up and have a person imagine the face of someone they have unresolved conflict with on the object. When I move the object, their physical body will move in the same direction. I’ve done this in a larger group and it knocked people backward into their seats.

I do this as part of a demonstration teaching the power of forgiveness. The emotional consciousness attaches to the object. Logical consciousness does not.

I’ve done a similar demonstration by having a person imagine a door and close their eyes. I walk over and shove the door and and it appears I am shoving them from many feet away as their body physically moves the same direction I shove the door. I feel people’s thoughts as physical objects as I am merely shoving their “thought” or “imaginary” door. Since they created the door, they are attached to it.

I totally bypass their body senses and work through their emotional subconscious. There are no tricks, it’s just how consciousness functions.

[tired&retired]

“I do a demonstration where I hold an object up and have a person imagine the face of someone they have unresolved conflict with on the object.”

I forgot to add, “Their eyes are closed.”