Atrial fibrillation: 1 in 3 people develop this heart arrhythmia after age 55, and 40% of patients experience no symptoms. It is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the world—affecting 55 million people—and its main danger is not to the heart, but to the brain: the risk of stroke.
In this first episode, Dr. Yoann Kiavué interviews Dr. Ardalan Sharifzadehgan, a cardiac electrophysiologist, to explain everything you need to know about atrial fibrillation (also called AF): symptoms, causes, diagnosis, risk factors, and stroke prevention.
If you, or someone you know, is over 55, suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, or experiences palpitations, shortness of breath, or unexplained fatigue—this episode is for you.
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00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is atrial fibrillation?
02:18 Sinus rhythm: how the heart normally works
03:22 Causes: hypertension, diabetes, obesity, sleep apnea
05:43 Symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue
07:02 Why 40% of patients are asymptomatic
08:55 The real danger: stroke (cerebrovascular accident)
09:54 Anticoagulants and the CHA2DS2-VASc score
11:16 Men or women: who is more affected?
12:00 Screening and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in 2026
14:10 The smartwatch revolution (Apple Watch, ECG)
20:50 Factors to monitor: blood pressure, sleep apnea, stress, alcohol
22:46 Lifestyle: losing 10% of your weight, a real treatment
28:34 Conclusion and next episode
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Dr. Ardalan Sharifzadehgan
Erthrophysiologist, specialist in heart rhythm disorders
🎙️ HOSTED BY
Dr. Yoann Kiavué
Cardiologist
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This content is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or professional guidance. In case of palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, or any cardiac symptoms, consult your doctor or a cardiologist immediately, or call 15 (SAMU) in case of emergency.
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atrial fibrillation, AF, heart arrhythmia, heart rhythm disorder, heart palpitations, stroke, cerebrovascular accident, anticoagulant, Holter ECG, electrophysiologist, cardiologist, sleep apnea, hypertension, fibrillation ablation, Apple Watch ECG, CHA2DS2-VASc, stroke prevention, heart health, cardiology podcast
Atrial fibrillation: 1 in 3 people develop this heart arrhythmia after age 55, and 40% of patients experience no symptoms. It is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the world—affecting 55 million people—and its main danger is not to the heart, but to the brain: the risk of stroke.
In this first episode, Dr. Yoann Kiavué interviews Dr. Ardalan Sharifzadehgan, a cardiac electrophysiologist, to explain everything you need to know about atrial fibrillation (also called AF): symptoms, causes, diagnosis, risk factors, and stroke prevention.
If you, or someone you know, is over 55, suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, or experiences palpitations, shortness of breath, or unexplained fatigue—this episode is for you.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⏱️ CHAPTERS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is atrial fibrillation?
02:18 Sinus rhythm: how the heart normally works
03:22 Causes: hypertension, diabetes, obesity, sleep apnea
05:43 Symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue
07:02 Why 40% of patients are asymptomatic
08:55 The real danger: stroke (cerebrovascular accident)
09:54 Anticoagulants and the CHA2DS2-VASc score
11:16 Men or women: who is more affected?
12:00 Screening and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in 2026
14:10 The smartwatch revolution (Apple Watch, ECG)
20:50 Factors to monitor: blood pressure, sleep apnea, stress, alcohol
22:46 Lifestyle: losing 10% of your weight, a real treatment
28:34 Conclusion and next episode
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🎙️ GUEST
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Dr. Ardalan Sharifzadehgan
Erthrophysiologist, specialist in heart rhythm disorders
🎙️ HOSTED BY
Dr. Yoann Kiavué
Cardiologist
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
👉 NEXT EPISODE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Atrial fibrillation: treatments (medication, catheter ablation, surgery). We take you to the operating room to see what really happens.
🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss anything.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔗 FIND DRYK CARDIO
Instagram: @drykcardio
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tCa3MI...
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast...
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⚕️ WARNING MEDICAL
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This content is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or professional guidance. In case of palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, or any cardiac symptoms, consult your doctor or a cardiologist immediately, or call 15 (SAMU) in case of emergency.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
#AtrialFibrillation #Cardiology #HeartHealth
atrial fibrillation, AF, heart arrhythmia, heart rhythm disorder, heart palpitations, stroke, cerebrovascular accident, anticoagulant, Holter ECG, electrophysiologist, cardiologist, sleep apnea, hypertension, fibrillation ablation, Apple Watch ECG, CHA2DS2-VASc, stroke prevention, heart health, cardiology podcast