“…A recent work on 700 patients found a 13.3% incidence rate at 3 years, which triplicate the rate of death, occurring more frequently in older age, diabetes and when echo LVEF <50% at hospital discharge. 8 In the paper published is this issue of JMRI, 9 the authors evaluated the prognostic information of MRI, especially LVEF to predict readmission for HF after a STEMI. Theirs results are based on a registry of 759 patients (among them, 23% were considered elderly, defined by an age >70 years).…”