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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 75, sits down with Prevention to share his atrial fibrillation diagnosis and experience. Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a common heart condition that causes irregular heartbeat.
The percentage of people with AF increases with age with 0.1% under 50 years old, 4% between 60 and 70 years old, and 14% over 80 years old being affected. [4] A-fib and atrial flutter resulted in 193,300 deaths in 2015, up from 29,000 in 1990. [29] [30] The first known report of an irregular pulse was by Jean-Baptiste de Sénac in 1749. [3]
Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach). [1] [2] A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart.
Post swing pose for golfer Henry Cotton in 1931. The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities of the swing are known as golf stroke mechanics. There are differing opinions on what constitutes a "good" golf swing. [1]
The 16-year-old amateur carded a three-under-68 first round and four-under-67 second round at the tournament in McKinney, Texas, showing few signs of the nerves he later admitted to having on the ...
In May 1967, the editor of Cary Middlecoff's 1974 book The Golf Swing watched every shot that 54-year-old Hogan hit in the Colonial National Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. "Hogan shot 281 for a third-place tie with George Archer. Of the 281 shots, 141 were taken in reaching the greens.
Prior to his work at the Sea Pines/Harbour Town Golf Links, Trahan ran golf schools in Florida and was head golf professional at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia. In the mid-1990s, Trahan was co-owner and Director of Golf at the Links O'Tryon in Campobello, South Carolina , the number one rated semi-private golf club in South Carolina ...
A golf drive Professional golfer Greg Norman drives a golf ball off the flight deck of USS John F. Kennedy. In golf stroke mechanics, a drive, also known as a tee shot, is a long-distance shot played from the tee box, intended to move the ball a great distance down the fairway towards the green.