TY - JOUR T1 - The Authors' reply JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 1359 LP - 1359 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300363 VL - 97 IS - 16 AU - Aida Suárez-Barrientos AU - Borja Ibanez Y1 - 2011/08/15 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/97/16/1359.2.abstract N2 - The Authors' reply We appreciate the letter from Simon N Thornton entitled ‘Overnight dehydration increases the risk of a morning infarct’, proposing an association between dehydration and ischaemic events.1 He suggests that it would have been of interest to consider hydration status on admission in our recently published paper on the circadian variations of necrotic size in patients with myocardial infarction.2As Thornton mentions, during the night period, due to the lack of fluid intake, there … ER -