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• n  localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply

• A group from Harvard estimated this risk and evaluated that on average, the extra risk of having a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, between 6 a.
• The myocardial infarction of September 1955 was well healed.
• 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 .

• infarct

News & Articles

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• STENTYS Self-Apposing Stent Approved in Europe for Additional Coronary Indications
  STENTYS , a medical technology company commercializing in Europe the world's first and only Self-Apposing® Stent to treat acute myocardial infarction , an
  July 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

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...