Increase in evidence-based treatments followed by decreased risk of death in heart attack patients, study suggests
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
In an analysis of data from a coronary care registry in Sweden, between 1996-2007 there was an increase in the prevalence of use of evidence-based invasive procedures and pharmacological therapies for treatment of a certain type of heart attack, and a decrease in the rate of death at 30 days and one year after a heart attack for these patients, according to a new study.