Is this love … or an arrhythmia? Your heart really can skip a beat when you’re in love

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Is this love … or an arrhythmia? Your heart really can skip a beat when you’re in love

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The Conversation

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It’s actually quite normal for your heart to beat faster (or race) – and can happen when you are excited, nervous, angry or even if you’ve had too many coffees

Hannah Brown, Science Strategy and Operations Manager, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University and Hui-Chen Han, Research affiliate, Monash University

We’ve seen it in our favourite romantic comedy – and for many of us, we’ve even felt it in real life. The door of the café swings open, in walks the p