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• a  of or relating to the myocardium

• The risk assessment tool below uses recent data from the Framingham Heart Study to estimate 10-year risk for hard coronary heart disease outcomes (myocardial infarction and .
• Using data from already published studies, Nissen found 86 myocardial infarctions in the group that took rosiglitzone, the chemical name for Avandia, compared with 72 in the .
• Now, a heart attack depends on the imbalance between increased myocardial oxygen demand (i.

News & Articles

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• First BioVentrix Revivent® System Clinical Patients Sustain 39.6% Improvement in Heart Function at One Year
  BioVentrix, pioneer of the Less Invasive Ventricular Enhancement™ procedure for the treatment of heart failure, announced today publication of baseline and 12-month comparative data demonstrating the durability of its Revivent Myocardial Anchoring System in the first 11 patients treated with the device.
  June 27, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Hospital mortality rates may be linked to performance on publicly reported medical conditions
  Hospital performance on publicly reported conditions (acute myocardial infarction [heart attack], congestive heart failure, and pneumonia), may potentially be used as a signal of overall hospital mortality rates, according to a study by Marta L. McCrum, M.D., of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues.
  June 24, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Study: Alzheimer's Drugs May Reduce MI Risk
  According to a Swedish study published recently in the European Heart Journal , use of cholinesterase inhibitors to treat subjects diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease was associated with a reduced risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and death. The observational study, which drew data from a cohort of more than 7,000 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia or Alzheimer's mixed ...
  June 24, 2013 - American Academy of Family Physicians

Quotes

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• Andrea in Washington Post
  It is well-established that air pollution causes myocardial infarction [heart attack] and stroke,said Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, who led the study while at the Harvard School of Public Health. "This is the first time that anyone has connected...
• René Lévesque in Channel News Asia
  A quarter of individuals in our study who suffered an acute myocardial infarction did so within two weeks of their first Vioxx prescription,Linda Levesque, a doctoral student at McGill University in Montreal and lead author of the study, said...
• John Steinbeck in Reuters
  During the first month after myocardial infarction, in an optimally treated high-risk patient population, ICD implantation does not offer a survival benefit,study author Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck, a paid adviser to Medtronic, said in a slide...