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Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 10:06 AM EST

Deaths more common on popular heart drug: study reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 05:42 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with a common type of abnormal heart rhythm were more likely to die within several years if they had been prescribed digoxin, a drug used to help control abnormal heart rates, in a new analysis. The research involved 4,060 people with atrial fibrillation, in which the heart's upper chambers quiver chaotically instead of contracting normally. More than two ...

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