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What is bradycardia?

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Bradycardia is when you have a decreased heart rate, below 60 beats per minute.

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What are the symptoms of bradycardia?
heart rate slower than 60 beats per min.
What is relative bradycardia?
In bradycardia for every one degree rise in temperature or fever there is 10 times rise in pulse rate.but in relative bradycardia pulse rate remains same despite of increasing temperature.
What is Sinus Bradycardia?
It is the proper function of the heart at rest with a rate lower than 50 beats per minute.
Differentiate the bradycardia from tachycardia?
Is bradycardia progressive?
I wore a heart monitor for 24 hours and my heart stopped beating 17 times. The fastest rate was 115 and the slowest was 48. Should I be concerned or could it be medication?