Atrial stretch and arrhythmia after myocardial infarction

Aging predisposes patients to various types of cardiovascular diseases. A recent update on Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics [1] reported an average of one heart attack in every 40 seconds for Americans. Despite the fact that therapies targeting acute coronary syndrome significantly improved over the past few decades, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death: it accounts for 1 out of every 3 deaths in the US. One of the dilemmas associated with this is that patients who survived an acute coronary event develop another cardiovascular problem, eventually leading to death. Therefore, in addition to primary treatments for acute coronary syndrome, prevention of secondary cardiovascular diseases also requires attention