# Myocardial infarction (SPRINT component)

Outcome · id `cardio:outcome-sprint-myocardial-infarction` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `2b2017b84496b985` (public)

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## In plain language

A heart attack. In SPRINT it is one of the five kinds of event that made up the primary combined outcome.

## Technical summary

One of the five components of cardio:outcome-sprint-primary-composite, worded as the paper's Methods words it. The paper's main text gives no definition and points to its Supplementary Appendix, which this atlas has not read.

## Provenance

Content hash: 436da665436a9ea177d850f02c57db9d6979470d171f2ef7589fa55c30240776
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-12
Evidence last checked: Not recorded