{"id":14067,"date":"2017-02-01T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiophile.com\/?p=14067"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:40:12","slug":"heart-rhythm-disorders-arrhythmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/general\/heart-rhythm-disorders-arrhythmia\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TjFv1JZun8M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Disorders of heart rhythm are technically known as cardiac arrhythmia. Rhythm disorders can be irregularity in the rhythm or change in the heart rate (increase or decrease). Commonest irregularity in the heart rhythm is due to abnormal beats originating from the lower chambers known as&nbsp;<em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">ventricular ectopic beats<\/span> (<span style=\"color: #008000;\">VPB or VPC &#8211; ventricular premature complexes<\/span>)<\/em>. Increase in heart rate can be due to physiological causes like exercise or due to simple disease states like fever. A decrease in heart rate can occur during deep sleep and when the body temperature falls below normal (<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">hypothermia<\/span>)<\/em>. There are several disease states which can reduce heart rate like a decrease in the function of the thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) and <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>complete heart block<\/em><\/span>. In complete heart block, the signals generate by the natural pacemaker of the heart, namely sinoatrial node, does not get conducted down to the lower chambers of the heart. The study of heart rhythm disorders is known as&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>cardiac <a href=\"\/general\/electrophysiology\/\">electrophysiology<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia) Disorders of heart rhythm are technically known as cardiac arrhythmia. Rhythm disorders can be irregularity in the rhythm or change in the heart rate (increase or decrease). Commonest irregularity in the heart rhythm is due to abnormal beats originating from the lower chambers known as&nbsp;ventricular ectopic beats (VPB or VPC &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia) - All About Heart And Blood Vessels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/general\/heart-rhythm-disorders-arrhythmia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia) - All About Heart And Blood Vessels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heart rhythm disorders (Arrhythmia) Disorders of heart rhythm are technically known as cardiac arrhythmia. 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