One Year After Heart Attack, Chest Pain Remains For Many

About 20% of heart attack patients experience angina (chest pain) one year after the major cardiac event, according to researchers who have published a new study in the June 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In both inpatient and outpatient settings, a primary goal of care after myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as heart attack, is to the episodic chest pain known as angina.

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on June 30th, 2008