For this reason, the authors tested the hypothesis that voluntary blood donation is associated with reduced
risk of acute myocardial infarction in a prospective epidemiologic follow - up study in men from eastern Finland.
In one study, Edward Carlton, Ph.D., of the North Bristol National Health Service Trust, Bristol, England and colleagues determined the diagnostic performance of low concentrations of high - sensitivity cardiac troponin I in patients with suspected cardiac chest pain and an electrocardiogram showing no ischemia as an
indicator of acute myocardial infarction (AMI; heart attack).
Classical
symptoms of acute myocardial infarction include sudden chest pain (typically radiating to the left arm or left side of the neck), shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, sweating, and anxiety (often described as a sense of impending doom).
Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk
of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.