Medical News Today -- In a paper published this week by PLoS Medicine, Han W. Kim and colleagues from the Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center, United States of America, use a recently developed technique to detect heart damage in patients who don't have symptoms or abnormalities in the electrocardiogram (ECG) that are usually associated with a heart attack ('myocardial infarction'). They show that the prevalence of this type of heart attack which doesn't display ECG abnormalities is more than three times higher than heart damage which does display ECG abnormalities.
