Population
All admissions and deaths with acute myocardial infarction as primary or secondary diagnosis in Denmark and…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
28 days
Authors
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MI case-fatality convergence between Denmark and Sweden supports care improvements; leaves open elderly-specific factors.
Incidence and case fatality of acute myocardial infarction declined significantly in both Denmark and Sweden, with historical disparities in case fatality between the two countries narrowing over time.
Steen Z. Abildstrøm (2003) studied this question.
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