Welcome to Cardiology Today's Myocardial Infarction Resource Center. Here you'll find the latest information on the diagnosis, management and treatment of MI, as well as up-to-date information on risk factors contributing to the condition. Be sure to check out the print edition of Cardiology Today for more news and perspective important to your practice.

AT ISSUE

Drug therapy options vary for prevention and treatment of MI

The cost of noncompliance among patients with MI?

After MI, lifestyle modifications play key role in prevention

Acute MI: Lack of precise definition continues to lead to misdiagnoses

DRUG TREATMENT

ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers: To hold or not to hold for IV contrast?

Statin use to reduce the incidence of PCI-associated periprocedural MI

The JUPITER trial and statins in primary prevention: Unequivocal benefit, or still a debatable issue?

ATOLL: Enoxaparin in PCI for STEMI yields improved ischemic outcomes

Eptifibatide shown equally effective in ST segment resolution compared with abciximab

PLATO: Ticagrelor decreased mortality from CV, MI, stroke in patients with STEMI

RISK FACTORS

APEX-AMI: Age strongest predictor of 90-day mortality

Transient ischemic attack doubled risk for MI

Early-, late-onset diabetes increased mortality, major CHD event risk in older men

Biomarkers improved prediction of mortality in patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI

SNPs implicated in increased risk for first CHD event

Psoriasis risk factor for AF, stroke, MI

MANAGEMENT

Conflicts of interest prevalent among clinical practice guideline producers

MI incidence, mortality from MI decreased between 2000 and 2008

Cost concerns, health insurance status influenced emergency care decisions

NORDISTEMI: Early intervention after fibrinolysis in patients with STEMI linked to reduced death, reinfarction

ACC/AHA publish revised management guidelines

WOMEN AND MI

Acute MI rates lower in men, women since Red Dress Campaign

Family history of stroke may increase risk for ACS in women

Older women less likely to receive angioplasty, have higher mortality rate after acute MI

Increased risk for acute MI identified among women with gout

MI in recent decades increased in midlife women

Updating terminology for women with heart disease may help refine diagnosis, treatment

PREVENTION/LIFESTYLE

Clinical Guidelines: CHD and Prevention

Light-to-moderate alcohol intake lowered sudden cardiac death risk in women

Research group proposes serving statins with some fast foods

ALPHA OMEGA: n-3 fatty acids did not reduce major CV events in patients with history of MI

Medication use before hospitalization lowered risk for STEMI in patients with first acute MI

Exercise-improved heart rate recovery increased cardiac survival in patients with recent MI