Heart Attack

The incidence of heart attack and stroke is lower among people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 compared with before vaccination and people who have not received a vaccine, according to a study.

Overreliance on high-sensitivity troponin as the sole assay to diagnose heart attacks has led to a rise in misdiagnosis, which is not benign and burdens the health system and patients with unnecessary and sometimes invasive testing.

Young women who consistently missed their period due to intense exercise, disordered eating or stress — a condition known as functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, or FHA — had a greater risk for endothelial dysfunction and CVD, data show.

Although the rate of heart attacks in the United States has declined by 50% in the last 20 years, patients from low-income households had significantly higher odds of mortality than patients from high-income households.

Among adults with depression, risk for cardiovascular events was greater in women compared with men, regardless of age or obesity status, researchers reported in JACC: Asia.

U.S. adults who reported cannabis use were at higher risk for coronary heart disease, MI and stroke compared with nonusers, with the risks persisting for cannabis users who reported never smoking tobacco, data show.

Compared with unvaccinated individuals, the recombinant zoster vaccine reduces the 3-year risk for mortality and myocardial infarction among individuals aged 50 to 65 years, according to a study.

Routine CT scans could serve as a useful tool to identify patients at high risk for atherosclerotic CVD when paired with a deep learning algorithm that calculated coronary artery calcium scores, researchers reported.

A variety of factors related to the built environment, including feeling safe from crime, were associated with reduced risk for major CVD events and all-cause mortality, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Moderate to extreme chest pain reported 1 year after an MI may be indicative of increased mortality risk, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.