Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and congestive heart failure (CHF), has ranked as the number one cause of death in the United States every year since 1900 except 1918, when the nation struggled with an influenza epidemic. In 2002, CVD claimed roughly as many lives as cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes ...

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Ventricular remodeling following myocardial infarction (MI) is a complex process driven by the response of both the myocytic and the nonmyocytic components of the heart to dynamic mechanical and neurohumoral stimuli. Despite the advent of reperfusion therapy and the administration of drugs slowing the progression of heart failure, many patients experiencing a MI undergo a progressive decline in...