Acute Coronary Syndrome in North America
A large number of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are not given therapies that can save lives and prevent recurrent cardiac events. Analyses of trends over the last decade…
Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned from the Euro Heart Surveys on Acute Coronary Syndromes
The Euro Heart Survey program was launched by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) around the year 2000 to assess variations in management and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) across…
Results from the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry
The clinical manifestations of atherothrombotic disease include strokes and transient ischemic attacks, critical limb ischemia, angina, and the full spectrum of acute coronary syndromes ( Fig. 3-1 ). The benefits…
Risk Factors Predicting Nonfatal Myocardial Infarction: The INTERHEART Study
Globally, cerebrovascular disease (CVD), which includes coronary heart disease (CHD), strokes, and peripheral arterial diseases, is the leading cause of death and is a major disease burden. Although age adjusted…
The Past, the Present, the Future
The Past: Emergence of a Syndrome The clinical description of a preinfarction syndrome closely followed that of angina almost 250 years ago, when Heberden wrote the following: There is a…
