Study: Heart attack death rate declines
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_he_me/heart_improvements"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070501/capt.nyol23405012027.heart_improvements_nyol234.jpg?x=120&y=130&sig=HOUsLxJ3hHrhbP1ZsWHvUA--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="A doctor points out one of the three major coronary arteries using a model of the human heart in this 2002 file photo, with the pink tubes depicting a heart after bypass surgery. A new study suggests that death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply, most likely because of better treatment. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)" border="0" /></a>AP - In just six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply, most likely because of better treatment, the largest international study of its kind suggests. The promising trend parallels the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, powerful blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries, the researchers said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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