Myocardial Ischemia

Patients who develop PTSD after MI are more prone to stress-induced myocardial ischemia than patients who did not develop PTSD.

Young and middle-aged patients with mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia after an MI were over two times more likely to have recurrent MI or CV mortality compared with those without the condition, according to data presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

PHILADELPHIA — Among patients with ACS who underwent PCI, ticagrelor monotherapy reduced bleeding risk compared with dual antiplatelet therapy, with no additional ischemic risk, according to new data from the TWILIGHT study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

PHILADELPHIA — In stable patients with moderate or severe ischemia, an invasive strategy and a conservative strategy of optimal medical therapy yielded similar long-term CV outcomes, according to long-anticipated results of the ISCHEMIA and ISCHEMIA-CKD trials presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Researchers reported that optimism, compared with pessimism, is associated with a reduced risk for CV events and all-cause mortality.