People who recognise myocardial infarction symptoms ‘less likely to die in hospital’

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Recognising and acting on myocardial infarction symptoms other than chest pain is linked to faster life-saving treatment according to research in Korea.

Research from Korea, which is being presented at ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, looked at the association between symptom recognition, time to treatment and clinical outcomes because although patients with a repeat myocardial infarction were more likely to know the symptoms than first-time sufferers, recognition was low in both groups.