Dr. Han Kim

But Dr. Han Kim of Duke University in North Carolina suspects the numbers may be far higher.

"No one has fully understood how often these heart attacks occur and what they mean, in terms of prognosis," Kim, whose study will appear next week in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine, said in a statement.
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"Those are the ones we haven't been able to count because we've never had a good way to document them," Kim said.

To spot these, Kim and colleagues used a new type of magnetic resonance imaging technology called delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance, which is especially adept at finding damaged heart tissue.
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Kim said currently people who have had silent heart attacks are treated like other patients with heart disease.

But given the findings, he said new studies should look at the best way to care for these patients.

E. Han Kim, Ph.D. Director, Joseph Shelter, Ulsan,
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Elaine Kim, Ph.D. President, Kyunghee University, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Physics, Duke University, U.S.A.Professor, Department of Ethnics Studies, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

But Dr. Han Kim of Duke University in North Carolina suspects the numbers may be far higher.

"No one has fully understood how often these heart attacks occur and what they mean, in terms of prognosis," Kim, whose study will appear next week in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine, said in a statement.
...
"Those are the ones we haven`t been able to count because we`ve never had a good way to document them," Kim said.

To spot these, Kim and colleagues used a new type of magnetic resonance imaging technology called delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance, which is especially adept at finding damaged heart tissue.
...
Kim said currently people who have had silent heart attacks are treated like other patients with heart disease.

But given the findings, he said new studies should look at the best way to care for these patients.