If you were asked to picture someone headed for their first heart attack, you would probably imagine someone with high cholesterol, a smoker, obese, and with elevated blood lipids—the classic profile. However, people who fit this description make up only a small share of those who go on to have heart attacks.
Researchers at Mount Sinai found that many heart attacks strike people who, by current medical guidelines, are considered low risk.“What we wanted to understand was this—if we took the patients who presented with a heart attack, and imagined seeing them two days earlier, how well would these tools have performed?” Dr. Anna Mueller, the study’s first author, told The Epoch Times.
