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New statistics from Denmark, England, and Poland show a roughly 50% drop in deaths due to acute AMI in recent decades.

Oxford, UK, Aarhus, Denmark, and Gdansk, Poland - New statistics from three European countries—Denmark, England, and Poland—show that mortality due to acute MI is falling, with a 50% drop in deaths over recent decades [1,2,3]. The reports were published January 25, 2012 in BMJ.

In an accompanying editorial [4], Dr Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe (University of Dundee, Scotland) says these new figures "suggest that the recent decline [in AMI deaths] is associated with the effects of evidence-based treatments in primary prevention, coronary care, and secondary prevention.
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