Since only half of individuals who had an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in China return to work a year after hospitalization, reducing in-hospital complications and promoting smoking cessation may be important to increase the likelihood of returning to work, according to a study published Nov. 21 in JAMA Network Open. Zihan Jiang, MD, et al., assessed the rate of returning to work and the factors associated with it within the year after the acute hospital phase of AMI in China. "Our findings signal the need for interventions that promote a timely return to work after AMI in China to mitigate a preventable decline in the working-age population," the authors write. "Labor-intensive industries are still a vital component of China's economy, and economic growth has relied, at least in part, on the country's high ratio of working-age to non-working-age individuals." Read more on ACC.org.