Multiple answers can be specified. Here you can see the percentage who answered “Yes” to each question.
ASTA offers the ability for the patients to describe their arrhythmia (their palpitations) through seven questions – all “in relation to your heart rhythm disorder”. Patients with atrial fibrillation are sometimes described as “asymptomatic” when they do not experience palpitations.
Questions about palpitations:
Do you experience any of the following in connection with arrhythmia?
(you can choose more than one alternative)
- The heart beats fast
- The heart beats regularly
- The heart beats irregularly
- The heart beats harder than usual
- A feeling that the heart is skipping something or a few strokes
- Short episodes of heart rhythm disorder that last< 1 minut
- No, do not feel any of the above