(Editor's note: The NCDR-Action Registry will incorporate and replace the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction, which has collected data on more than 2.3 million acute MI patients and helped ...

Many fewer Americans are falling prey to the most dangerous form of heart attack, a new study says. STEMI ...

“It’s not widely known or widely accepted that anger does precipitate heart attacks,” she said. “This study offers a ...

Subpopulations at heightened risk for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) due to air pollution. Antipsychotic use in people with dementia ...

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The gold standard for diagnosing myocardial infarction has been the World Health Organization definition, which requires any 2 of 3 criteria: ischemic symptoms, electrocardiographic changes ...

Most trials that have shown a benefit of beta-blocker treatment after myocardial infarction included patients with large myocardial infarctions and were conducted in an era before modern biomarker ...

The greatest adoption of radial access was observed in cases of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), "which is ...

Cardiovascular events frequently recur after acute myocardial infarction, and low cholesterol efflux — a process mediated by apolipoprotein A1, which is the main protein in high-density ...

A heart attack, also called myocardial infarction (MI), occurs when blood flow to the heart is suddenly interrupted. This can lead to damage to the heart muscle. Treatment is the only way to avoid ...

Physicians forced to make rapid-fire choices, with limited evidence, in acute myocardial infarction complicated by ...

Lower rates of cardiac surgery were found in patients living with HIV along with an increased risk of adverse events.