background: early clinical and retrospective angiographic evaluations indicated that in patients with acute myocardial infarction (mi), vulnerable plaques most often represented a mild luminal stenosis. more recent studies drawing upon prospective angiograms, however, have demonstrated that in majority of patients with acute mi, the underlying stenosis is significant.   methods: twenty-eight pa...

conclusions inhalation aromatherapy with lavender aroma can reduce anxiety in patients with myocardial infarction. consequently, healthcare providers, particularly nurses, can use this strategy to improve postmyocardial infarction anxiety management. results the study groups did not differ significantly regarding baseline anxiety mean and demographic characteristics. however, after the administ...

background coronary heart disease (chd) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pakistan. the temporal trends in the risk factors for myocardial infarction (mi) and the impact of socioeconomic status on these risk factors remain ambiguous. objectives the objectives of the present analysis were to investigate the potential association between various risk factors and mi in north punj...

background: due to the positive relation between platelet size and platelet reactivity, a high value of the mean platelet volume (mpv) is an independent risk factor to predict acute myocardial infarction (ami) and its adverse outcome. few data are available to determinate the prognostic value of mpv in st-elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) patients treated with percutaneous coronary interv...

background: the role of temperature changes, as an environmental risk factor, in the human health status has been investigated in recent studies. accordingly, the present two-year study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of myocardial infarction (mi) in warm and cold seasons in ali-ibn abi talib hospital, rafsanjan, iran. materials and methods: in this descriptive and cross-sectional study...