Heart Attacks Are Less Deadly Than They Used to Be

Nowadays, more than 90% of people survive heart attacks. The decline in deaths is due to the doctors’ ability to detect and treat smaller heart attacks, and to the specialized coronary care units developed in the early 1960s.

According to Stanford researchers, more than half of the reduction in heart attacks since 1985 are due to the growing use of Aspirin, clot-busting drugs and artery-opening angioplasty.

There is still more to do to improve those numbers like developing faster and more accurate techniques to diagnose a heart attack, protecting and supporting the heart while an attack is underway, but more importantly, finding ways to prevent heart attacks in the first place.