Myocardial Infarction

DENVER — Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction had higher mortality, hospital stays and hospital charges than patients with IBD alone, noted a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

Testing for coronary heart disease within 12 months before kidney transplantation did not correlate with a change in death or myocardial infarction within 30 days after the transplant, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Approximately 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed in EDs every year, according to a report from the HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Patients with rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory disease who experience myocardial infarction are more likely to die or experience heart failure vs. patients without immune-mediated inflammatory disease, according to data.

Premenopausal women who experienced late menarche had a greater risk for myocardial infarction and stroke, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Among adults hospitalized with acute MI, Black patients presented with a more “geriatric” phenotype with more functional impairments than white patients despite being younger, researchers reported.

Late menarche was associated with a 15% to 33% greater risk for MI and stroke among premenopausal women compared with menarche at age 13 years, researchers reported.

Lipoprotein(a) levels of 67 mg/dL or more may be indicative of similar risk for premature MI as LDL of 180 mg/dL or more in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, researchers reported.

In suspected obstructive CAD, clinical models with risk factors and a coronary artery calcium score identified up to 3.5 times more patients who may not benefit from further diagnostic testing vs. a basic pretest probability model.

CHICAGO — In MI survivors younger than 55 years, those who reported perceived discrimination had worse outcomes in the year after their MI vs. those who did not, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.