The additional patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction (MI) rather than unstable angina since the definition of MI was redefined have even higher long-term mortality than patients diagnosed according to the older definition, reports a team from Switzerland.

There has been a substantial increase in the number of patients diagnosed with MI since the European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology classified cardiac troponin as a major criterion in redefining MI in the year 2000.

Cardiac troponin is recognized as a more sensitive marker for myocardial ...

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