Informativo

• When patient factors including cardiac risk factors are considered, antibiotics have little association with cardiac risk, at least in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Why this matters

• Macrolides and fluoroquinolones have gained a reputation as being associated with cardiac risk.
• Authors note that in some cases the disease being treated with antibiotics is itself tied to cardiac risk (e.g., pneumonia and Afib risk).