Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...

Empagliflozin improves cardiovascular outcomes in patients with heart failure, patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high cardiovascular risk, and patients with chronic kidney disease. The safety ...

Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 12, No. 1, Focus: Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment, Control, and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Related Risk Factors (Winter 2002), pp. 38-44 (7 pages) ...

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 ...

Myocardial ischemia is a drop in blood flow to the heart. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when death or damage occurs in the muscle tissue of the heart due to low blood supply. The ...

Ozzy Osbourne's cause of death has been confirmed—but what is an acute myocardial infarction? It was one of three things listed on the 76-year-old Black Sabbath rocker's death certificate, which was ...