Silent Heart Attacks - New Study
A new study suggests that silent heart attacks are more common in occurrence than once believed.
Wired PR News – A new study suggests that unrecognized myocardial infarctions occur more frequently than once believed. As reported by Reuters, incidents of this health condition, also known as a silent heart attack, are suspected to affect more than the purported 200,000 individuals every year. The study’s Dr. Han Kim with Duke University is quoted by Reuters as stating, “No one has fully understood how often these heart attacks occur and what they mean, in terms of prognosis.”
As noted in the report, Kim and researchers of the study used a new kind of imaging technology to detect heart attacks that had previously occurred in patients with coronary artery disease, which could not be detected using conventional means of testing. The findings of the study could lead to better methods of care for patients with heart problems.
The study is set to be published next week in the PLoS Medicine journal of the Public Library of Science.
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