Atrial fibrillation refers to a heart situation that triggers an irregular and infrequently abnormally quick coronary heart price.

A standard coronary heart price must be between 60 and 100 beats a minute if you're resting, based on the NHS.

However, atrial fibrillation could cause your coronary heart to beat very quick, with some individuals experiencing significantly greater quantities of beats than 100 per minute.

Worryingly, the variety of individuals identified with atrial fibrillation has elevated by 50 % prior to now decade, the British Heart Foundation experiences.

Now the center situation that causes dizziness, shortness of breath and tiredness impacts round one in 45 individuals within the UK.

What’s worse, atrial fibrillation hikes your danger of a probably deadly or life-changing stroke by 5 occasions, making symptom consciousness entrance and centre.

While not everybody with atrial fibrillation experiences warning indicators, there are some signs that may ring alarm bells.

The tell-tale signal of atrial fibrillation is coronary heart palpitations, the place your coronary heart feels prefer it's pounding, fluttering or beating irregularly.

However, one purple flag may also strike if you exercise.

Although several types of train can have an effect on everybody’s capacity to carry out them, atrial fibrillation makes victims much less in a position to carry out this bodily exercise.

The situation could make train troublesome as a result of your coronary heart might begin to race, inflicting your blood pressure to drop and making you are feeling faint.

While strenuous varieties of train can really feel extra dangerous than useful, there are different bodily actions that may be useful even for sufferers with atrial fibrillation.

According to the NHS, different indicators of the center situation might embody:

• Breathlessness
• Feeling faint or lightheaded
• Chest ache.

The well being service recommends seeing a GP or calling 111 should you expertise atrial fibrillation indicators to verify it is nothing critical.