“For the study, his team analyzed nationwide hospital data from 2004 to 2020 involving more than 3.4 million heart attack patients.
The overall incidence of STEMI heart attacks decreased to 49 per 100,000 hospitalizations in 2020 from nearly 99 per 100,000 in 2004, results show.
Death rates fell from 25% to 22% in people older than 85 and from 13% to 10.5% in people 65 to 84, results show. Deaths increased slightly for people between 45 and 65 years of age, from 4% to 5.5%.”