Obesity and Undernutrition in Acute Myocardial Infarction

We read with keen interest the recent publication by Alahmad et al. 1 Mohamad Alahmad MA Gupta K Undernutrition severity is associated with worse outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 2023; 201: 42-49 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1) Google Scholar The authors have characterized the association between malnutrition and several outcome measures after acute myocardial infarction using data from the National Readmission Database. This study impressively addresses an important hypothesis with a large, nationally representative sample.