myocardial infarction

The condition forces the heart to work too hard and can cause a host of other serious medical problems, such as stroke, myocardial infarction, kidney damage and vision loss.

Raised blood lipids are a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke.

Anti-inflammatory therapy to treat patients following acute myocardial infarction is an exciting prospect that deserves further translational studies, report investigators in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier.

When this is disrupted, it leads to worse cardiovascular disease outcomes including myocardial infarction and heart failure.

Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, causing irreparable damage to cardiac muscle cells.