HEALTH · Jul 12, 2026 Profuse sweating with no apparent cause followed by a spasm-like sensation at the lower end of the esophagus is a warning sign of an impending myocardial infarction (heart attack). MOSTLY BS
HEALTH · May 31, 2026 A cohort study of 382 adults younger than 60 years old, assessed 3 months after a first myocardial infarction and followed for 20 years, found that participants in the highest tertile of interleukin-6 had a 2.70-fold higher risk of heart-failure hospitalization than those in the lowest tertile (hazard ratio 2.70; 95% CI 1.32–5.50). SOME BS
HEALTH · May 31, 2026 A prospective Fudan University study of 724 patients with recent myocardial infarction found that soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) was an independent predictor of long-term major adverse cardiac events, reporting an unadjusted hazard ratio of 9.123 (95% CI 5.883–14.147) and an adjusted hazard ratio of 3.761 (95% CI 2.269–6.233) with p < 0.001. NOT BS