{"id":813,"date":"2009-04-03T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=813"},"modified":"2009-04-03T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:41:48","slug":"doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw another article about atrial fibrillation just now, saying men who were tall (not necessarily overweight!) in their 20’s are at a higher risk of atrial fibrillation<\/a> in their 40’s.<\/p>\n

I’ve been 6’4″ since I was twelve years old. I weighed 180 pounds when I was 20, and was skinny as a rail. I gained 50 pounds of solid muscle in the next five years by working out, doing martial arts, and not having much of a social life, and then I started having atrial fibrillation at 25. I was in the best shape of my life.<\/p>\n

Not tolerating exercise very well in the 9 years after that, I’ve put on 50 more pounds of not so much muscle, but I haven’t had any atrial fib since I started using a CPAP. Go figure…<\/p>\n

But I’m not in my 40’s yet, so I guess there’s still time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw another article about atrial fibrillation just now, saying men who were tall (not necessarily overweight!) in their 20’s are at a higher risk of atrial fibrillation in their 40’s. I’ve been 6’4″ since I was twelve years old. I weighed 180 pounds when I was 20, and was skinny as a rail. I gained … Continue reading “Doomed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-atrial-fibrillation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}