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Inclusion Criteria: * men and women, 18 years of age and over with acute myocardial infarction (determined by positive cardiac markers -CKMB/ troponin) with or without heart failure (dyspnea, rales, edema, elevated jugular venous pressure, ascites). * Heart failure can be diagnosed using imaging evidence such as dilated heart, poor contractile function or echocardiographic Doppler evidence of diastolic dysfunction or elevated right- or left-sided filling pressures * A control group of male subjects age 60 and older without history of MI or heart disease Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects unable to give consent * Subjects who have undergone cardiac or non-cardiac surgery in the 3 months prior to enrollment