U.S. heart attack mortality reached a two-decade low in 2014
The percentage of heart attack patients dying dropped from 20 percent in 1995 to 12.4 percent
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COUNTER ATTACK An analysis of two decades of data from Medicare patients finds that fewer older adults are dying of heart attacks in the United States.
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