{"id":84924,"date":"2022-10-02T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jj-watt-discloses-that-he-had-atrial-fibrillation-on-wednesday-and-will-play-today\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:07:17","slug":"jj-watt-discloses-that-he-had-atrial-fibrillation-on-wednesday-and-will-play-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jj-watt-discloses-that-he-had-atrial-fibrillation-on-wednesday-and-will-play-today\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Watt discloses that he had atrial fibrillation on Wednesday, and will play today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2952596\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"index-post-thumbnail with-featured-embed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cardinals defensive end JJ Watt made a stunning disclosure on Sunday, in an apparent effort to preempt a <em>Sunday Splash!<\/em> report about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just told somebody leaked some personal information about me and it&#8217;s going to be reported on today,\u201d Watt tweeted.  &#8220;I <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjwatt\/status\/1576606541213360128?s=42&amp;t=No7Co414SZtPAUgY490pbQ\" target=\"_blank\">went into A-Fib on Wednesday<\/a>, had my heart shocked back into rhythm on Thursday and I&#8217;m playing today.  That&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A-Fib is atrial fibrillation.  Per the Mayo Clinic, \u201cAtrial fibrillation (A-fib) is an irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots in the heart. <abbr title=\"Atrial fibrillation\">A-fib<\/abbr> increases the risk of stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watt did not practice on Wednesday or Thursday.  He was listed as having only a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, the team is aware of the situation and properly cleared him to play today, at Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; Getty Images Cardinals defensive end JJ Watt made a stunning disclosure on Sunday, in an apparent effort to preempt a Sunday Splash! report about him. \u201cI was just told somebody leaked some personal information about me and it&#8217;s going to be reported on today,\u201d Watt tweeted. &#8220;I went into A-Fib on Wednesday, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jj-watt-discloses-that-he-had-atrial-fibrillation-on-wednesday-and-will-play-today\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JJ Watt discloses that he had atrial fibrillation on Wednesday, and will play today<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84860,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/arizona-cardinals-jj-watt-tweets-hes-set-to-play-days-after-having-heart-procedure\/","url_meta":{"origin":84924,"position":0},"title":"Arizona Cardinals&#8217; JJ Watt tweets he&#8217;s set to play days after having heart procedure","date":"October 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CHARLOTTE, NC -- Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman JJ Watt tweeted Sunday, hours before he was set to play against the Carolina Panthers, that he went into atrial fibrillation Wednesday and had to have his heart shocked back into rhythm Thursday.he sent the tweet at 12:14 pm ET. 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