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Hearts that lose their rhythm
ELENA MARTÍN
...should be between 60 and 100 beats a minute) and affects more men than women. José Luis Roberson, a septuagenarian whose heart lost its natural rhythm 12 years ago, tells us his story: "It was January 21st and the weather was horribly cold, but I ... arrhythmia in Spain, which affects between one and two per cent of the general population, but rises to 4.4 per cent in the over-40s and up to nine per cent in octogenarians. With the ageing of the current population, it is calculated that these figures will