{"id":616629,"date":"2026-06-02T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:23:07","slug":"trial-success-for-st-albans-woman-who-often-fainted-while-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616629\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial success for St Albans woman who often fainted while eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BHF said all the people in the trial had slowed heart rates during their fainting episodes, and they reported 19 blackouts a year on average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a year after the treatment, the average number of blackouts fell to about one a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 75% of the group who underwent the CNA procedure no longer fainted at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Mohamed Zuhair, a researcher at Imperial College London, which led the trial, said: &#8220;CNA offers a way to treat the root cause of this condition. It allowed people to get back to normal lives without needing a pacemaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope that this procedure will be adopted by more clinicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah&#8217;s condition had also prevented her from driving and she was off work for several months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was one of the hardest times of my life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But now I can live without fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BHF said all the people in the trial had slowed heart rates during their fainting episodes, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}