Drugs Raise Heart Attack Survival Rate
Make a commentBy Ed Silverman // March 24th, 2007 // 12:18 pm
The number of Americans surviving for years after a heart attack is rising, thanks to drugs now prescribed to control long-term risks, researchers said.
Growing use of Lipitor for cholesterol, Diovan for high blood pressure and other similar drugs has helped decrease deaths that occur more than a month after a heart attack by about 3 percent a year from 1995 to 2004, a study of almost 22,000 patients found
“These findings suggest that change in survival may be primarily attributable to increased use of recommended drugs,” says Soko Setoguchi, the lead researcher from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Here’s the abstract from the study.
And this is a report from Bloomberg News.