Nov 12 2023Rutgers University The results of the trial, Myocardium Infarction and Transfusion , were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Maria Mori Brooks, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, co-first authored the study.
The results of the multicenter randomized clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute , were presented at the Late-Breaking Scientific Sessions of the 2023 American Heart Association annual conference. Related StoriesThe researchers compared the frequency of the main outcome of death or recurrent heart attack at 30 days after enrollment into the trial. Although not statistically significant, the study found the frequency of mortality or recurrent heart attack was 2.4 percent lower when a liberal approach was used.