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Palpitations
What’s this?
Palpitations are characterized by a feeling heart beat faster and / or less regular than usual. In taking the pulse, heart rate is actually increased.
This rhythm disturbance may occur in sick, as a symptom of the disease, but also among healthy subjects, although it reveals a pathology.
What are the causes?
They are very varied.
- It is normal to the effort by example, that the heart rate increases .- Same at a high emotional stress or sudden.
- Certain diseases, such as tachycardia, are characterized by palpitations.
Generally speaking, palpitations are due to a disruption of electrical impulses that regulate heart beats. These disturbances occur most often in the absence of heart disease and, therefore, no obvious explanation. They are however more frequent with increasing age and / or presence of hypertension.
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