Your heart may beat faster than it should. Or it may beat irregularly.

Having an irregular heartbeat means that instead of beating evenly like the ticking of a watch, your heart beats like this: thump, thump, thump-thump, thump. Abnormal rhythms make it hard for your heart to pump blood as well as it should.

To learn more, see What does my heart do?

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