{"id":2467,"date":"2010-08-09T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:54","slug":"prior-medication-use-shifts-balance-of-mis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/08\/09\/prior-medication-use-shifts-balance-of-mis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Medication Use Shifts Balance of MIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients who present with MI and are taking aspirin, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, or statins are more likely to have a non-STEMI than a STEMI, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/170\/15\/1375\">findings from a large Swedish registry published in the <em>Archives of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Lena Bj\u00f6rck and colleagues analyzed data from over 100,000 consecutive admissions for MI. Some 61% of STEMI patients had used no medications, versus 46% of non-STEMI patients.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/extract\/170\/15\/1381\">an invited commentary<\/a>,\u00a0Eyal Herzog and Fahad Javed generally praise the study but write that &#8220;before too strongly embracing pharmacologic treatment, it is important to remember that the risk of MI is almost entirely attributable to modifiable cardiovascular risk factors&#8230;.\u00a0We know what works; now we have to put our evidence to use.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients who present with MI and are taking aspirin, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, or statins are more likely to have a non-STEMI than a STEMI, according to findings from a large Swedish registry published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.\u00a0Lena Bj\u00f6rck and colleagues analyzed data from over 100,000 consecutive admissions for MI. Some 61% of STEMI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,282,257],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-mi","tag-non-stemi","tag-stemi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}