" In just six years, death rates and heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients have fallen sharply, most likely because of better treatment, the largest international study of its kind suggests. "
"The promising trend parallels the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, powerful blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries, the researchers said. "
"''These results are really dramatic, because, in fact, they're the first time anybody has demonstrated a reduction in the development of new heart failure,'' said lead author Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at Scotland's University of Edinburgh. "