A new study published in The Lancet has questioned the care of heart attack patients in the UK - stating that the chance of surviving a heart attack in the country is significantly lower than in Sweden.
Researchers say if the UK had adopted the same health care strategies as Sweden, more than 11,000 heart attack deaths may have been prevented.
The research team, including Prof. Harry Hemingway of University College London in the UK and co-leader of the study, says that their findings are "a cause for concern."
They stress that further international comparisons of health care policy and clinical practice may lead to improvements in the quality of health systems and prevent more heart attack deaths.
To reach their findings, the investigators analyzed data from national clinical registries of patients who had suffered a heart attack between 2004 and 2010.
Included in the data were 391,077 patients from 242 hospitals in the UK, alongside 119,786 patients from 86 hospitals in Sweden.
The analysis revealed that 30 days following a heart attack, 10.5% of UK patients died, compared with 7.6% of Swedish patients.
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