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Is having a tachycardia dangerous? does this shorten your life?

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Dr. Matt Wachsman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Rapid heart beat: Is normal function with exercise. But if the wrong part of the heart is running the rhythm then it's a different pattern of rapid beating that is uncontrolled and dangerous. To tell...you have to be watching the electrical pattern while it occurs. Tricky.

Answered 6/5/2014

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