MI was diagnosed in 126 out of 247 patients (51%), with 50 patients (20%) classified as having type 1 MI.

Following a hospitalization for acute MI, nearly one in three patients do not accurately recall being rehospitalized in the first year after discharge for the index event, new data indicate. The study ...

Compared with risk of acute MI or stroke in the 150 days before or 181 to 540 days after a gout flare, there were heightened risks in the following time periods after a flare: 0 to 60 days (adjusted ...

For patients with acute MI with heart failure, eplerenone, a related mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, was shown to be beneficial in the EPHESUS trial, with a 15% reduction in mortality.

Heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarction (MI), are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The newly released classification system presents a four-stage classification of heart attack ...

Heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarction (MI), are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The newly released Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classification of Acute Myocardial ...

Madan and colleagues analyzed data from 38,071 adults aged 55 years and younger hospitalized with acute MI between April 2009 and March 2019 in Ontario. Within the cohort, 21.2% were women; the ...

The analysis included 406 patients from 80 sites (mean age, 64 years; 24% women; 67% with shock at admission) with acute MI and cardiogenic shock treated from July 2016 to November 2020.

Seven risk factors, some modifiable and some not, accounted for the vast majority of risk for first-time acute myocardial infarction (MI) in young adults, according to a case-control study. The ...