# Global cardiology groups adopt new heart attack definition to reduce misdiagnosis in women

Four cardiology groups agree on new heart attack definition that lowers troponin threshold for women.

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The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and World Heart Federation (WHF) agreed on a new universal definition of heart attack. [^1]

Researchers developed a multiclass machine learning framework to predict cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome stage trajectories using longitudinal cohort data. [^2]

Dr. Sanjiv Patel, interventional cardiologist at MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California, said that women who had heart attacks were at higher risk of misdiagnosis than men when doctors reviewed troponin levels. [^3]

The new definition changes the diagnostic threshold for troponin, a protein released when the heart is injured, with a sex-specific threshold for women because their baseline troponin levels are lower than men's. [^4]

The new definition divides heart attacks into three categories: primary (sudden, caused by severe reduction or blockage of blood flow to the heart), secondary (due to an imbalance in oxygen supply and demand from another acute condition), and procedure-related (occurring as a complication after surgery). [^5]

Six consensus predictors were identified for the parsimonious model: baseline CKM stage, age, fasting glucose, TyG-BMI index, systolic blood pressure, and triglycerides. [^6]

The study utilized data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), merging Wave 1 (2011) and Wave 3 (2015) data from a cohort of 2,971 adults. [^7]

The XGBoost algorithm achieved the highest Macro-AUC of 0.786 (95% CI 0.757-0.813) among six compared algorithms for predicting CKM stage trajectories. [^8]

## What this stands on

1. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and World Heart Federation (WHF) agreed on a new universal definition of heart attack. (Blic.rs, News)
2. Researchers developed a multiclass machine learning framework to predict cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome stage trajectories using longitudinal cohort data. (Frontiers, News)
3. Dr. Sanjiv Patel, interventional cardiologist at MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California, said that women who had heart attacks were at higher risk of misdiagnosis than men when doctors reviewed troponin levels. (Blic.rs, News)
4. The new definition changes the diagnostic threshold for troponin, a protein released when the heart is injured, with a sex-specific threshold for women because their baseline troponin levels are lower than men's. (Blic.rs, News)
5. The new definition divides heart attacks into three categories: primary (sudden, caused by severe reduction or blockage of blood flow to the heart), secondary (due to an imbalance in oxygen supply and demand from another acute condition), and procedure-related (occurring as a complication after surgery). (Blic.rs, News)
6. Six consensus predictors were identified for the parsimonious model: baseline CKM stage, age, fasting glucose, TyG-BMI index, systolic blood pressure, and triglycerides. (Frontiers, News)
7. The study utilized data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), merging Wave 1 (2011) and Wave 3 (2015) data from a cohort of 2,971 adults. (Frontiers, News)
8. The XGBoost algorithm achieved the highest Macro-AUC of 0.786 (95% CI 0.757-0.813) among six compared algorithms for predicting CKM stage trajectories. (Frontiers, News)

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