{"id":37619,"date":"2023-08-22T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=37619"},"modified":"2023-08-25T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:49:37","slug":"stroke-risk-afib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2023\/08\/22\/stroke-risk-afib\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Risk: What Can Be Done to Help Heart Valve &#038; Atrial Fibrillation Patients?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be no secret.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with heart valve disease are 35% more likely to have atrial fibrillation. And&#8230; Patients with atrial fibrillation are five times more likely to have a stroke. The big question we need to ask is, &#8220;What is being done to help patients reduce stroke risk?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To answer that question, we interviewed Dr. Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine. Doctor McCarthy is a heart valve and atrial fibrillation expert. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/afib-stroke-risk-reduction\/\">Click here to see my interview with Dr. McCarthy about stroke risk reduction, atrial fibrillation and heart valve disease.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/afib-stroke-risk-reduction\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/stroke-risk-reduction-afib-patrick-mccarthy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Patrick McCarthy - Heart Valve and Atrial Fibrillation Expert\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Patrick-McCarthy-Chicago-Illinois.php\">Dr. Patrick McCarthy<\/a> and the entire Northwestern Medicine team for taking such great care of heart valve and atrial fibrillation patients.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37661,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37619\/revisions\/37661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}