A 75-year-old man with 10-pack-year smoking history, hypertension, and mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents to your office concerned because several of his friends have recently passed away from “heart attacks.” He states that he quit smoking approximately 7 years ago. His physical exam is within normal limits. He has no history of prior cardiac…
Greater scrutiny is needed in evaluating high sensitivity cardiac troponin I levels for the purpose of excluding or diagnosing acute myocardial infarction.
Implementing a Heart Care Navigation team for acute myocardial infarction improved compliance with guideline-based care and decreased mortality and readmission rates.
However, only about 50% of adults knew all 5 common heart attack symptoms in 2017.
A review of the 2016 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology guidelines for management and diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease.
Women with 5 or more live births at increased risk for coronary heart disease, hospitalized MI.
Increase especially great among women, who were less likely to receive guideline-based treatment.
Blood pressure, smoking, type 1 and 2 diabetes linked to higher hazard ratios for women than men.
Certain weather conditions are associated with an increased risk for myocardial infarction.
Of TTS survivors, 11.9% readmitted within 30 days, with associated mortality of 3.5%.
