In a retrospective center study conducted on 569 AMI patients, AST was found to be a predictor factor for cardiac death and MACEs (AMI, unstable angina, TLR or another segment or coronary vessel, stroke and saphenous vein aortocoronary bypass grafting) at 6 years of follow-up, its value being significantly correlated with troponin and myoglobin [136]. The gene discussed is MB; the disease is angina pectoris.