American Heart Association volunteer expert, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, M.D., is Kimmerling professor of Cardiology, Chair, Division of Cardiology, VCU Pauley Heart Center, Medical College of Virginia / VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia.

Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation P687 
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"They're looking at the issue of Afib as a global health problem. And showing that probably, there is some corelation between being, doing a lot of exercise and or being being very fit. And the amount of AFib you have compared to doing very little. They looked at, exercise, intensity or duration in terms of quartiles. With you know, low to nothing to high intensities so I think its, very interesting, it you know makes you think about one more way in which exercise can be very important in terms of cardiac care or cardiac health and it doesn't necessarily tell us the mechanism not even the prospect of studied cells and mechanism, but it does show that for what is an electrical, we think is primarily an electrical disease of the heart Atrial Fibrillation, that being heart healthy along the lines of what the American Heart Association really promotes is really promulgated really pushed the importance of heart health, importance of exercise, may have some benefits, some additional benefits that no one ever thought about back many years ago when the American Heart Association began encouraging people to exercise."