There is a link between atypical heart sounds and atrial fibrillation. People with this condition have an irregular, disorganized heartbeat. Atrial fibrillation is a serious type of arrhythmia, which ...

When we exercise, our brains and bodies process a non-stop stream of information, but scientists have now shown how one data point can be manipulated to play tricks on the mind. In a paper published ...

Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

A heart murmur is an extra sound that can occur between heartbeats as blood moves through the heart. In babies, it is usually not a cause for concern. Sometimes, however, it can indicate an underlying ...

A heart murmur, detected as an unusual sound during a heartbeat, can be an indicator of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic condition causing thickening of the heart muscle. A heart murmur is ...

FIU Researchers are training AI to detect heart conditions, like aortic stenosis and heart failure, by analyzing heart sound data to improve early diagnosis and risk prediction. The future of heart ...

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With a sound sensing system using stochastic resonance (4SR), it became possible to obtain an acoustic pulse wave (APW)—a waveform created via a mixture of apex beat and heart sound. We examined 50 ...

Heart auscultation by primary care providers detected heart murmurs in nearly 1 in 4 individuals in a Norwegian population. While murmurs were particularly useful for detecting aortic stenosis, their ...