UA Sarver Heart Center Presents `Keeping Your Heart in Sync: What You Need to Know About Atrial Fibrillation,’ Feb. 16

UA Sarver Heart Center Presents `Keeping Your Heart in Sync: What You Need to Know About Atrial Fibrillation’

Thursday, Feb. 16

10 a.m.

Canoa Hills Social Center, 3660 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley

SPEAKER: Mathew Hutchinson, MD

Professor of medicine at the UA Sarver Heart Center and director, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Program at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, is board certified in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology.

Atrial fibrillation is a heart rhythm disorder that affects between 2 to 3 million people and accounts for about one-fifth of all strokes in the United States. By 2050, the number of people affected by atrial fibrillation will increase to an estimated 12 million. The condition leads to a fast and irregular heart rate.

(The presentation is part of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center’s Green Valley Lecture Series, in cooperation with Green Valley Recreation, Inc.)

COST:            Free

No reservation required. Refreshments provided. For more information about the UA Sarver Heart Center, please visit www.heart.arizona.edu

Release Date: 
02/02/2017 - 3:50am
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