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Share on Pinterest FluxFactory/Getty Images If you have atrial fibrillation (AFib), which is an irregular heart rate, you may feel a fluttering in your chest, or it may seem as if your heart is ...

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Adding an extra hour every week of physical activity may lower the chance of developing the most common type of irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) by 11 percent, a new study shows.

Higher resting heart rate is associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation, researchers found. What's more, the higher a person's heart rate, the higher their risk for A-fib, results showed.