American Hospital Heart Attack Deaths Plummet

[HuckleB]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/189558.php

"The overall proportion of hospital patients who died in the hospital after a heart attack fell by 37 percent between 2000 and 2007, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The rate fell from from 106 per 1,000 patients to 67 per 1,000 patients during the period.

Medicare patients experienced the largest decline (37 percent) and Medicaid patients, the smallest (27 percent). While the privately insured and uninsured rates fell at a similar pace (32 percent), the uninsured were much more likely to die from a heart attack (93 versus 67 deaths per 1,000 heart attack admissions).

The federal agency also found that:

- From 2000 - 2007, Midwestern hospitals went from having the highest heart attack death rate in the country to the lowest (from 112 to 63 deaths per 1,000 heart attack admissions).

- Western hospitals moved into the number 1 spot for heart attack deaths in 2007 (71 deaths per 1,000 heart attack admissions). In 2000, they were second-highest.

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Good news, perhaps.

[Go2Peace]

1. That is great news. It means our medicine is getting better at disarming HAs

and keeping people alive. It's nice to see a stat in our health care actually getting better.

[jaysunb]

3. I'm a 2 time surviver.

I am ever grateful to the good doctors, nurses, staff and hospitals that have used advanced skills and methods that are responsible for me not only being alive, but healthy.

My biggest beef (among many)against so called conservatives is their desire to belittle education, particularly science. Luckily, people are beginning to reject their stupidity.

I am a witness !

[HuckleB]

4. +1

[madrchsod]

2. my local hospital`s er is excellent when it comes to heart problems

unfortunately i found that out several times in the last few yrs.

[Berry Cool]

5. What a pity my mother had her heart attack in 2000.

She's probably find it quite ironic that the survival rate, especially in the Midwest, has improved so much since she died.