Low physical activity level may confer risk for instant, short-term MI death

February 23, 2021

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Moderate to high physical activity levels were associated with lower risk for instant and 28-day death related to MI, according to results published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

“Less myocardial stunning, less ischemia-induced arrhythmias, improved left ventricular function and improved survival after a cardiac arrest have been documented in patients hospitalized with MI who experience pre-infarction angina; an equivalent of ischemic preconditioning,” Kim Wadt Hansen, MD, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow in the department of cardiology at Bispebjerg Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues wrote…

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