The number of people dying from an acute myocardial infarction has decreased significantly in recent decades. According to cardiologists, the treatments for patients have become much better and patients are quickly in the hospital.
While in 1990 17,302 people died from an acute myocardial infarction, this is now around 4,900 per year. The total number of deaths in the Netherlands actually increased during that period. In particular, significantly fewer elderly people now die from heart attacks. The AD reports this.
Get to the hospital quickly
Care for heart patients has improved greatly, say cardiologists. Because patients get to a hospital quickly, they also receive the right care quickly. “We are doing better than larger countries, where the distance to the hospital is greater,” says Rudolf de Boer, chairman of the Dutch Association for Cardiology.
2023-12-23 21:33:01
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