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Patients on high doses of corticosteroids, used to treat conditions such as asthma, arthritis and some blood cancers, are at higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation, one type of irregular heartbeat. 
 
While not immediately fatal, atrial fibrillation in turn increases risk of stroke and other heart conditions. 
 
This finding comes from a recent Dutch study, whose authors recommend that patients on high doses of corticosteroids be carefully monitored for heart issues.

Corticosteroid Therapy May Be Associated with Irregular Heartbeat

DG News - 5/11/2006 4:22 PM

CHICAGO, I.L. -- May 11, 2006 -- High doses of medications known as corticosteroids may be linked to an increased risk for atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder characterized by an irregular heartbeat, according to an article in the May 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
 
Atrial fibrillation, which occurs when muscles of the heart's two upper chambers (atria) contract irregularly, is the most common type of irregular heartbeat and affects about 4% of adults older than age 60, according to background information in the article
 
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