Florida Public Health Tracking System

Each year over a million people in the U.S. have an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack. A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted by either lack of blood flow, obstruction by a clot, or rupture of a plaque (a buildup of fat and other substances in the blood) in a coronary (heart) artery. Many individuals have coronary artery disease and do not know it until they have a heart attack or die suddenly as a result of myocardial infarction. (Jama, 2008, Vol 299, No. 4).

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Links to other websites:

Florida Department of Health

Agency for Health Care AdministrationFlorida Health Finder

Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

American Heart Association, Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease

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