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How do you know if heart flutters followed by racing heart for a few minutes is due to anxiety?

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Heart flutter: It can be due to anxiety, but can also be due to thyroid disease, electrolyte abnormalities, or an underlying abnormal heart rhythms so would followup with doc/ cardiologist for EKG. holter, echocardiogram.

Answered 5/30/2016

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