Hormones produced by your thyroid affect the speed and rhythm of your heartbeat. As a result, problems with thyroid function can also affect your heart.
Diagnostic tests and other medical records help doctors understand symptoms, but this information is often challenging for laypeople to understand. That’s where DrOwl comes in, as our AI-driven health app explains complicated medical terms to patients.
Under normal circumstances, the heart’s upper and lower chambers beat in sync. With AFib, the upper chambers beat quickly and erratically and become out of sync with the lower chambers. Over time, AFib can lead to the formation of blood clots, which raises a person’s risk of strokes, high blood pressure, and heart failure.
An overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) can cause your heart to beat faster than normal, which increases the risk of AFib. In fact, this heart problem is extremely common among people with hyperthyroidism, particularly among older adults over the age of 60.
When it comes to thyroid disorders, doctors learn more through physical exams and blood tests, while AFib can be diagnosed with blood tests, ECGs, and Holter monitors (which are portable ECG devices). With DrOwl, you can store and track diagnostic and lab results, along with surgical reports, doctor’s notes, and other medical documentation.
Clinical terms and jargon aren’t easy to understand, so we developed DrOwl with a special AI translation tool. Trained exclusively on clinical documentation, our app makes sense of confusing records to improve your understanding of your health.
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