Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality

Finland, Denmark, Australia, and Luxembourg had the steepest AMI mortality declines highlighted in the article. In 2006, Ireland had the highest AMI mortality rate and France had the lowest. By 2020, Austria had the highest remaining AMI mortality rate and Denmark had the lowest. All 16 countries had sustained declines in AMI age-standardised mortality rates during the study period. Declines in AMI mortality in countries with falling revascularisation volumes suggest revascularisation volumes alone do not explain mortality improvements. More sensitive troponin assays may have lowered observed AMI ASMR by increasing the share of lower-risk AMI cases in later years.