ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE
The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by more than 2 million to 8.9 million deaths in 2019.
from a heart attack (that’s 4 times more lives than Covid-19 has taken in the past year). In the US alone a person has a heart attack every 40 seconds. Studies show that prolonged delays often occur before inhospital therapy , and that prehospital treatment with the appropriate drug could save lives and reduce after-effects.
WHO, 2020. Read 02.15.2021