Cardiovascular Disease: Declining Rates of Death and Heart Failure

Medicines and interventional treatments contributed to a 45% decline in heart attack deaths and heart failure from 1999-2005.
_{Source: K.A. Fox, et al , “Decline in Rates of Death and Heart Failure in Acute Coronary Syndromes, 1999-2006,” Journal of the American Medical Association 297, no 17 (2007): 1892–2000}