Death Risk Higher for After-Hours Heart Attack

Researchers said that heart-attack patients admitted to hospital at night or on weekends run a five-percent higher risk of dying than those treated during regular hours. In the United States alone, this translates to an extra 6,000 deaths per year, they reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The study was an overview of 48 published investigations into the outcome of nearly 1.9 million people hospitalised with an acute myocardial infarction, ...